[rtpg]

Alright I'm not going to engage with you on this, except to say that I've also written a report generator that does the whole "aggregate by time bucket and certain conditions across multiple tables" and it was in the Django ORM and it would end up as a single query that looked like what the SQL I would have written is. Lots of `query.explain()` calls locally to make sure I was getting what I want, but hey I'd be doing that for SQL in perf-sensitive queries as well.

I'm partial to the ORM being easy to lull you into writing quadratic-behavior stuff. You still gotta know how your DB works! But "mostly using the ORM, using SQL for some tricky things" works really well, especially given that the Django ORM lets you inject SQL fragments for a lot of behavior and have that "just work".