Database interaction

[eluser]erik.brannstrom[/eluser]
[quote author="GSV Sleeper Service" date="1269886230"]once you try Doctrine there's no turning back[/quote]

I actually started rewriting an application of mine to use Doctrine 1.2 after reading the excellent tutorials on phpandstuff.com, however it just feels so heavy. Also, it kind of scared me that there are left-of-decimal-point updates coming to both CI and Doctrine in the foreseeable future and I don't feel like writing a lot of code that will be deprecated in a matter of months.

Have you perhaps looked into this? I do like Doctrine, even though I think they should go through their documentation, and it certainly is powerful, but is it worth it?