Query builders are a slight annoyance at worst, while ORMs can easily screw up the foundation of your system. You get extra compile-time checks with a query bui

Query builders are a slight annoyance at worst, while ORMs can easily screw up the foundation of your system. You get extra compile-time checks with a query builder if you're using TS (a big piece of bloat on its own) instead of JS, which can be nice, but that's also what tests are for.