I hate the Django ORM and I don't know why Django doesn't just deprecate it and switch to SQLAlchemy as the new default, which is a much, much better ORM and used primarily by non-Django Python apps.
Why don't I try what? Deprecating the Django ORM? I've already done so on a personal level (in fact, I avoid Django wherever possible), but since I don't control the Django project, I can't deprecate it for everyone, as I suggested in the parent comment. :)