Early in my career, I noticed a mindset among senior developers disparaging ORM's with "I'll write my own SQL, thanks." Although I noted their thoughts at the time, I didn't really do anything with it - there was a mountain of other things to learn and using an ORM made me productive enough to get tasks done.

Of course, years later when I finally dug into SQL and interacting directly with databases, I had a much better understanding of their mindset and wish I would have learned earlier.

Now your mindset feels very similar to me - "I'll write my own shell scripts, thanks." So, to avoid making the same mistake twice, do you have any advice for what to read / learn to better understand your position?

Note: I've written plenty of shell, but the shell I've writen is way to hacky to use as a replacement for ansible.