[giancarlostoro]

ORMs can be used poorly sure, but anything I can design using raw SQL I can typically do with an ORM. The question is, are people using ORMs as a way to avoid having to figure out proper database design? If so, they should not be using an ORM and should really learn how the database they will be using works. Heck! There's micro ORMs like Dapper which let you run raw SQL and match it to an actual object for you, to be fair almost all ORM's support doing raw SQL and getting back an object which can be handy for performance bottlenecks. Badly coded software will usually have performance issues, whether using raw SQL or not.

Update: Fixed typos.