I think you're mixing up someone who's decided to use an ORM rather than some hodgepodge of string concatenation with someone who has no idea what a database is

I think you're mixing up someone who's decided to use an ORM rather than some hodgepodge of string concatenation with someone who has no idea what a database is, is unable to set it up effectively, and is unable for some reason to debug the sql emitted by ORM queries or use their ORM at all effectively to avoid N+1 problems. Not really a fair comparison.