I don't know of any ORM that handles schema changes automatically (edit: for the most strict definition of "automatically" -- I've used ORMs that generate migra

I don't know of any ORM that handles schema changes automatically (edit: for the most strict definition of "automatically" -- I've used ORMs that generate migration files and am generally happy with them). My experience here is quite limited, so I'm inclined to defer to yours. With that caveat, I find that ORMs play more nicely with my IDE (e.g. I can rename a column name and automatically update all call sites) and often raise early warnings if their declarative classes are out of sync with the underlying table schema.