I used to be of this train of thought. It took a long while and a few different options. I'm now of the opinion that it's like everything else I encounter, some

I used to be of this train of thought. It took a long while and a few different options. I'm now of the opinion that it's like everything else I encounter, sometimes it has a place. I don't like the large ORMs, at all, though. I've used a few Micros (C#) and settled into PetaPoco for a few tasks which are CRUD heavy to allow internal users to maintain some data and it has saved me a lot of time. I can write the hell out of some SQL, but sometimes I don't need to be doing it, it's just dead simple stuff. There can be concerns for people currently unfamiliar with SQL which I understand.