I'm pretty firmly in #2... it's relatively straight forward in a scripting language, and easy enough with something like C# with Dapper. In the end ORMs tend t

I'm pretty firmly in #2... it's relatively straight forward in a scripting language, and easy enough with something like C# with Dapper. In the end ORMs tend to over-consume, and often poorly. And even when they don't in most cases, they start to in more difficult cases. That doesn't even get into the amount of boilerplate for ORMs. You have to buy in to far more than their query model(s).