Ha, should have read the comments before I wrote mine. Yep, it's this composability aspect that never seems to have occurred to the authors of this kind of thin

Ha, should have read the comments before I wrote mine. Yep, it's this composability aspect that never seems to have occurred to the authors of this kind of think-piece. I used to be pretty anti-ORM myself because I loathed the complexity of ActiveRecord (in the Rails world), but then I discovered arel, the nice composable relational query builder underneath, and saw the light. A composable layer of abstraction over SQL is critical in an application. (I still prefer raw SQL for analytical queries.)