Agreed... ORMs can be nice, but one should understand how it works. I'm a pretty big proponent of simple mappers (Dapper for .Net, template literals for JS/TS)

Agreed... ORMs can be nice, but one should understand how it works. I'm a pretty big proponent of simple mappers (Dapper for .Net, template literals for JS/TS) with straight SQL over ORMs at this point.