[njitbew]

ORMs could (and most do) provide some escape hatch, where you can write the query yourself and reuse the hydration layer, or reuse the query generator and customize the hydrator, or a combination. Or you can just bail out completely for the few performance critical queries.

Honestly, ORMs are just an abstraction. They come at a cost and they’re not a silver bullet, just like most abstractions. I believe the hate for ORMs in many cases is due to a lack of understanding/wrong expectations.