[threeseed]

That's just because it is what you are comfortable with.

Many developers will jump straight for ORMs when given the chance.

[dominicrose]

Some ORMs have weird design issues. Eloquent for example allows you to pull relationships lazily on single objects, so if you're in a loop that'll create a lot of queries. So much for laziness! I'm OK with this ability, but the API shouldn't encourage it by making it trivial.

[Tostino]

Which for certain types of applications ORMs absolutely have their use.