[hrcxxx]

I find sequelize really cumbersome and syntactically ugly. I would recommend typeorm or maybe loopback (haven't tried loopback though)

[vinceguidry]

If I had been consulted during the architecture phase, I'm fairly sure I would have found those alternatives and recommended one. I was not consulted, so we're stuck with the architecture we have, unless I want to go to the effort of changing the architecture.

Starting to really loathe the resource-augmentation biz model.