[jcmontx]

Most of the time we do simple CRUD operations, I want this plumbing to be as straight forward as possible. Don't be patronising...

[Dansvidania]

I am always confused by this wish. If the operations are simple, why the need for ORM?

[cies]

And the notion of lazy associations, life cycles, clean/dirty, attached/detached, ... etc, etc.

The book of Hibernate is thicker than the book for SQL.

The only thing that works better in ORMs is "save". Just call save on an ORM managed object and it is saved, quite a bit harder in SQL.