> So you know one guy that quit over having and ORM instead of using SQL... do you have any idea how many quit due having to deal with thousands of lines of SQL string concatenations because some genius that also hates ORMs decided to do a giant project that way?
Those aren't the only alternatives. Query builders exist.
A lot of languages have pleasant multi-line string literals. Also if you have a 1000 line hand-crafted SQL query, it's probably not going to be pleasant in your ORM either.
Those aren't the only alternatives. Query builders exist.