And... a lot of awful boilerplate code too.  Not to put too fine a point on it, but much of what I see people write <i>in the effort to avoid using an ORM</i> is insanely poor, but they saved 2ms off of a report query that&#x27;s run 3x per day.  Nevermind that I can delete your entire database by modifying URL structure - ORMs are inefficient!