It's a higher level abstraction that that boosts dev speed and readability and is often good enough by default, esp. for CRUD work. More advanced ones have the

It's a higher level abstraction that that boosts dev speed and readability and is often good enough by default, esp. for CRUD work. More advanced ones have the ability to optimize things fairly well within the constraints of their API. And it's not one or the other. There's always an SQL escape hatch when you need one for complex queries.