It took me a long time to realise this but I discovered the only thing I really needed from an ORM was a type safe query builder. Essentially a drop in replacement for trivial SQL queries, which is most of them.

This article sums up the difference between old and new quite nicely. Prisma is fantastic for rapid development and type safety but doesn't require you to completely change the way you write code as it is still basically just a query generator, unlike traditional ORMs which use hidden magic to try to do everything for you with surprising consequences.

https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/more/comparisons/prisma-...