The Django ORM is a quite thin abstraction over SQL. But yes, the ORM makes it easy to create this problem by mistake. But sometimes you really don't care. You

The Django ORM is a quite thin abstraction over SQL. But yes, the ORM makes it easy to create this problem by mistake. But sometimes you really don't care. You can write one-off scripts directly in a shell and then it often doesn't matter. I take advantage of this a lot.