The common sentiment on HN I'd say is the opposite: ORM's are needed for junior devs who didn't have time to learn SQL properly. After NoSQL hype died out (arou

The common sentiment on HN I'd say is the opposite: ORM's are needed for junior devs who didn't have time to learn SQL properly. After NoSQL hype died out (around 5 years ago), the HN attitude towards both ORM's and using NoSQL instead of relational dbs has been mostly negative for sure.