Yeah, I don't hate JPA/Hibernate. I fact, I tend to hate its absence, because for me that's usually meant a four user CRUD app written with JDBC and a billion lines of boilerplate mapping between the domain and SQL CRUD statements.

I mean, there are definitely cases where JPA/Hibernate doesn't fit for all kinds of reasons, but don't avoid it where it does help (e.g. the 4 user CRUD app that needs to be "web scale").