> I wonder if we just have a generation of programmers who can't think in SQL. They're used to using ORMs (which are useful abstractions) but can't work at a lo

> I wonder if we just have a generation of programmers who can't think in SQL. They're used to using ORMs (which are useful abstractions) but can't work at a lower level. There is probably some truth to this, but another reason is that they want to avoid certain scaling hassles or costs. Edit: I'm not saying this is necessarily a good thing.