A better analogy than the language one: Your web app has to run on Firefox, Chrome, and... IE6 yay! You're not allowed to use any modern Javascript, or most of the API's you'd like to use.
Because being able to switch to IE6 at any point in development is more useful than any of those fancy-dancy API's, right?
If there was an ORM that dealt with everything but a flaky end of life database, sure start working on it.
But this is advocating picking one platform. Like creating Chrome-only JavaScript. I guess the nearest thing with Electron.
Yeah the analogies breakdown at some point.
I don't think anything is black-and-white. I just think the vast majority of Django apps are fine with Django's ORM. This article smacked of premature optimisation.
Because if you do learn some SQL, then the problems with ORMs become annoyingly apparent.
I agree that most Django coders will be fine with the ORM. I guess I don't see that as a good thing, though.
I suspect that's the problem. It's neither my feeling or my experience.
Every platform/language/OS/chip I know has annoyingly apparent problems. In my experience high-self-conidence-low-self-awareness folks are too keen to drop-level and 'make it right'. And love feeling how smart they are ('everyone who disagrees is obviously not as smart!) Too often 'smart-guys' cost more, long term. And I'm not ragging on you. That was me in my 20s. Embarrassingly.