Totally agree with you, only want to add that unfortunately the team doesn’t really know the given ORM they use, and I have seen some utterly stupid uses of eg. Hibernate (like eager fetching basically everything there is for queries where it is not required, or simply not knowing anything about the boundaries where an object is “attached” or not). Which one might argue that it is a defect in the tool, but I doubt you would blame an airplane for crashing when the “pilot” is not trained to drive it.