It's pretty much impossible not to end up with a lot of repeated spaghetti code, if you are doing anything beyond a really trivial single user app. Even for si

It's pretty much impossible not to end up with a lot of repeated spaghetti code, if you are doing anything beyond a really trivial single user app. Even for simple stuff, like each user only having permission to see parts of the database, it's essential to have a systematic way of filtering that is composable. I'm not a fan of ORMs and I actually like SQL and yet have been using sqlalchemy expression language (the low level part of sqlalchemy) for many many years and i wouldn't really go to SQL strings.