I'm going to make an argument here, and you might disagree but that's fine: If you don't understand the purpose of an ORM, you haven't worked on a sufficiently

I'm going to make an argument here, and you might disagree but that's fine: If you don't understand the purpose of an ORM, you haven't worked on a sufficiently large enough software project or don't fully understand what the definition of an ORM is. If you need to write a report of any fashion, do not use an ORM. You can help write the report with your ORM of choice, but at some point you need to get down to the language that the database speaks because you're doing the kind of set mathematics that ORMs aren't made for. BUT, if you need to add a user permission, and you're doing anything other than: $user->addPermission( Permissions->get( 'CAN_EAT_CAKE' ) ) you're doing something wrong.