[baq]

Boilerplate. Writing serializers and deserializers by hand is not an efficient use of developer time.

Related to ORMs, but not quite on topic - query building. Type checked queries, parts of which can be passed around business logic, are very powerful and flexible.

[ithkuil]

There are more and more libraries that let you to write SQL and bind the results into native records (objects, structs) in the host language. I find it an interesting middle ground