The lack of expressiveness in query builders that the author refers to in their first post as a motivation for ditching them is an easily solvable problem. It seems like most ORMs have easily solvable design issues though, and I would definitely agree that you should ditch tools that get in your way. What I've been doing is sporadically working on an _experimental_ Golang ORM called Trance, which solved this by allowing parameterized SQL anywhere in the builder through the use of interfaces. e.g.,

    trance.Query[Account].Filter("foo", "=", trance.Sql("...", trance.Param("bar"))