Totally reasonable post. Sad to see it greyed out. After years of working in ORMs I've come around to your thinking for bigger projects. ORMs are great, but

Totally reasonable post. Sad to see it greyed out. After years of working in ORMs I've come around to your thinking for bigger projects. ORMs are great, but they are large, complex, and sometimes opaque project dependencies and therefor should be employed sparingly. Parameterized SQL isn't that tough to write (and Python makes it easy) and often faster. The biggest drawback: it requires a dev team comfortable with SQL or the NoSQL library bindings you're using.