[split] Arguing for an ORM

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping

One could argue that we *do* what an ORM is meant to do.

The problem arises in what else developers expect an "ORM" to do, and there is no single ORM that would keep all the developers happy. You suggest that managing relationships would suffice, but others insist that their ORM should generate scaffolding, or should have container-based persistence or entity-based persistence.