> SQL makes it easy to write and read simple queries, and ridiculously complicated and arcane to write slightly more complex logic.

This is the thing that makes ORMs sound appealing: let's make the complicated things simple! In my experience, the complicated things are truly-complicated, not just because SQL makes them seem to be. So by the time you make Use Case A "simple," you've run into Use Case B and Use Case C, and by the time your ORM handles all of those, well, there's a good chance it still doesn't handle all of them, and however many it does handle, the syntax ends up being... complicated.

There is so much to be said for a known and well-supported standard, and we are so quick to assume we can do better. Most of them, we really can't.

But hey, keep trying! Coming up on 50 years, we should manage to surpass SQL at some point, right? And in the meantime, we'll have our five-thousandth ORM or DSL to reach the limits of and have to revert to SQL anyway for just those last two or three queries.