ORMs are terrible but you can make the same mistakes in the article without a ORM, or in a query builder

I think the article alludes to much more important problems like querying in a loop, querying the same information again just because it's not in function/object scope

A lot of the mistakes I see are because developers don't learn SQL, use it wrong, then assume it's slow, then use NoSQL, then reenforce each other into believing NoSQL is saving their performance

Let's not make this a conversation on ORM or not, but how do we make sure developers understand how to properly make use of their relational databases, which for the last decade or so has been painted as old & cruddy compared to sexy NoSQL