[acomjean]

I think they mean stuff in Laravel framework and Ruby on Rails. Like database access where you can just use it as an object without worrying about queries and such. This is great, gets projects up fast.... until you need to do something different. It generally comes at the expense of flexibility.

[nicoburns]

Most ORMs allow you drop down into RAW for all or part of the query, so you haven't really lost any flexibility.