That comparison would only really make sense if people were advocating writing SQLite storage files by hand.
In this situation SQL is the library. It’s the interface that allows you to query and write the underlying data while knowing nothing about the underlying format. An ORM is just a library sitting on top of the library you already have. There’s just as much to learn, it’s just a higher level of abstraction (until it isn’t because you need something low level).
In this situation SQL is the library. It’s the interface that allows you to query and write the underlying data while knowing nothing about the underlying format. An ORM is just a library sitting on top of the library you already have. There’s just as much to learn, it’s just a higher level of abstraction (until it isn’t because you need something low level).