Fair point, both "pro ORM" and "anti ORM" camps are prone to extreme stances. I definitely don't agree with the "all queries must be executed through the ORM",

Fair point, both "pro ORM" and "anti ORM" camps are prone to extreme stances. I definitely don't agree with the "all queries must be executed through the ORM", and think that dogmatic stance has done a lot of damage to the ORM brand. :-/