[midrus]

Why would you use another ORM?

I've worked once in a project where a very opinionated dev lead "decided" SQLAlchemy was better than the django ORM, so he replaced it. The mess he created was unbelievable, we spent years cleaning things up and some part we even couldn't.

> have to choose to either do things the Laravel way to take advantage of the community, or write everything on your own

Of course! that's the whole point of a framework, to put some guardrails on how to do things.

If you think you can do things better, more performant, more tested, and more documented, good for you, go ahead and just write raw PHP or tie together your own libraries. You can't blame an opinionated framework because bastardising it is not easy. That's a feature in my book.