[stephen]

Using raw SQL directly is doable, but it means you're responsible for maintaining the business logic & validation rules of every single hand-written INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE query in your codebase.

Personally I don't trust myself to remember to do that :-) hence preferring entity-based ORMs:

https://joist-orm.io/docs/modeling/why-entities

(That said, I definitely "know SQL" and use raw SQL queries for the ~5% of queries in a CRUD/SaaS app that are actually unique/non-boilerplate, instead of forcing them to go through an obtuse query builder DSL.)