[hn_throwaway_99]

While I don't write a ton of "boilerplate", the primary thing for me is writing boilerplate, if necessary, is trivially easy. What's hard is debugging when problems arise, or trying to do some slightly more complicated join that isn't supported out of the box by your ORM tool of choice.

Basically, in my opinion ORMs just make the easy stuff slightly easier, but they make the hard stuff much harder, and when you're stressed out trying to fix some critical production DB query all they do is get in the way.