Yeah my issues are from trying to actually use the advertised functionality of the library. Issues include migrations being generated incorrectly, lots of footguns (for example it’s extraordinarily easy to instead of deleting a particular row, to delete your whole table, and their typescript typings are too general to make it clear what you’re doing), the pattern of making instances of relations that lack all the fields that are required in the DB leads to the type system becoming unreliable (fields that should always be present in the DB, may not be in JS), transformer functionality has a ton of bugs as well. I’m just scratching the surface, it’s telling that there are 1500+ unresolved issues on the repo and 200+ unmerged PRs.

The downside for me about dropping into raw SQL is that it makes much of the usefulness of an ORM in being able to refactor your schema and stuff disappear, because the type system and instrumentation can’t auto-refactor a raw SQL string. But I agree that I’d take that over relying on TypeORMs bugginess.