[thruway516]

I had to scroll all the way down to find this. As a CTO who personally never understood the point of ORMs the benefits become very quickly obvious when your organization starts to scale and the prospect of dozens or hundreds of developers of unknown quality hitting your production db with raw sql becomes objectively frightening. Of course there are ways to setup and administer your db to prevent the most obvious footguns, and it is still possible to write bad queries with an ORM, but having that extra layer with limitations gives some extra peace of mind.