ORMs are a critical piece of any modern web application. Let's be real. Handling migrations and changes to data schema are going to happen all the time. Maybe

ORMs are a critical piece of any modern web application. Let's be real. Handling migrations and changes to data schema are going to happen all the time. Maybe over time they happen less, but not really. Basically any change to any functionality will realistically require changes to your database schema. ORMs give you a nice way to encapsulate your app model functionality in a way that works pretty well with database features. You're not going to get 1-1 parity in terms of every possible database with every possible ORM, but that's OK. I like one particular FastAPI boilerplate lib that I use for stuff, and it is almost as good as using Rails with its amazing ORM, ActiveRecord.