I use it all the time and just don't talk about it, because it's boring and does the job. Why? Because I know how it works, and can make functional things in minutes. It's my go to hammer when I need to build another stupid fucking website with a database. I don't care if it's "slow", I couldn't give less of a shit about the extra 12 cpu cycles every request needs, it is completely irrelevant because I'm not serving traffic to millions of concurrent users.