> for me, ORMs are more detriment than benefit Well, that's not a great start to the article. There are dozens of different ORM's, so unless you get more speci

> for me, ORMs are more detriment than benefit Well, that's not a great start to the article. There are dozens of different ORM's, so unless you get more specific, this makes as much sense as saying "For me, programming languages are more detriment than benefit". All ORM's are not equal and they all operate at various levels of abstraction. Some are very close to SQL, others sit very high on the abstraction chain, and each project might benefit from a different one based on a lot of criteria.