Most of the people I know who gripe about ORMs have either never used one, or tried to apply one in an instance where an ORM is not applicable. ORMs fit a very

Most of the people I know who gripe about ORMs have either never used one, or tried to apply one in an instance where an ORM is not applicable. ORMs fit a very specific use case - eliminating the tedium and risk associated with writing simple queries, and creating a simple layer of abstraction from the database. If you mention ORMs and someone starts griping about how it made their accounting reports slower, slap the shit out of them.