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There definitely is a reasonable middle ground. The best ORMs I have dealt with provide straightforward paths for simple queries and then let you drop to raw SQL for complex/performance critical stuff.

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"Make simple things simple and complex things possible" - worth putting this placard on every ORM/API/DSL/GUI developer's desk.

I wrote almost that exact line in my blog post on the topic: "So a better ORM should make the simple things easy, and the hard things possible." https://blog.dieselpoint.com/a-minimalist-good-enough-approa...

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