Is that implementation or is that a base problem? I agree - I would much rather write SQL. But like others have said in this thread, I hate writing custom code

Is that implementation or is that a base problem? I agree - I would much rather write SQL. But like others have said in this thread, I hate writing custom code to translate anything but the simplest queries into what I actually need. I also hate trying to combine slightly different queries with custom string manipulation that turns into 750 lines of code before you know it. Most ORMs handle that use case very well.