[sumtechguy]

That is exactly where ORMs help. The problem is all of the other stuff with it. When most people just need a simple mapper. Not something to build their SQL statements for them (which seems to be why most people pick it).

But that comes to the second problem. Most devs I meet seem to be deathly allergic to SQL. :)

One project I had a dev come to me asking me to look at a bug in the thing. Having never seen that particular ORM before I was able to diagnose what was wrong. Because MS ORMs have the same issues over and over (going back to the 90s). You better read those docs! Because whatever they did in this stack will be in their next one when they abandon it in place 3 years from now.