I see more and more people coming out of college (or through apprenticeships) with miserable SQL skills. Relational databases are boring technology, and people

I see more and more people coming out of college (or through apprenticeships) with miserable SQL skills. Relational databases are boring technology, and people want to work with shiny new things. People don't want to learn it, and they rely on ORMs so they don't have to. The result is miserable performance and reimplementing parts of SQL badly in the application itself.