I think you greatly overestimate how many people use ORMs instead of SQL. SQL usage is ubiquitous in my experience. That said, even SQL databases usually don't

I think you greatly overestimate how many people use ORMs instead of SQL. SQL usage is ubiquitous in my experience. That said, even SQL databases usually don't run SQL. They run a virtual machine against which SQL is compiled. A more enlightening question is why there are no alternative/better query languages compiled against the same target that SQL targets since that would be strictly additive.