I dislike Spring JPA for the same reason. It just magically understands your query based upon the name of the function. There is far too much "magic" going on

I dislike Spring JPA for the same reason. It just magically understands your query based upon the name of the function. There is far too much "magic" going on these days which has a massive learning curve for the newbies, and a headache for everyone else when something stops working because they've changed how the incantation works.