Ive been increasingly disliking ORMs in general lately. After a few days of trying to identify connection leaks and poorly optimized queries in a SQLAlchemy application, I’m starting to lose my hair.

I think this actually speaks well to the point of the article. We can simplify the logic a lot by using boring tech, in this case, separating the query builder logic from the connection/transaction logic. Switching from one very complex ORM, to two more understandable simple systems, and getting back to more grass roots with querying.