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mixed The thread is broadly sympathetic to the article’s core warning—ORMs do not remove the need to understand SQL—but not uniformly anti-ORM. Many commenters argue for a middle ground: use ORMs or query builders for boilerplate, type safety, migrations, and simple CRUD, then drop to SQL for complex or performance-sensitive — latest discussion,