I completely agree. I pretty much stopped using Spring/Boot because of it, even though it could be used without Hibernate/JPA. I tried sql2o and later switched

I completely agree. I pretty much stopped using Spring/Boot because of it, even though it could be used without Hibernate/JPA. I tried sql2o and later switched to jdbi and Javalin for a lightweight framework. I started making a typesafe library[0] that maps bottom-up like SQL expressions but development as stalled as I haven't been doing much side-project work to use it. [0] https://github.com/karmakaze/safeql https://github.com/karmakaze/safeql