It is just „SQL people” crying out not knowing how to work with ORM. They always claim that devs who use ORM don’t know SQL. But I never seen or hired a dev that doesn’t know SQL and yet for each project we use ORM.

I also never seen anyone claiming that you doesn’t have to know SQL and ORM is enough from the opposite side.

If you really run into spot where your ORM breaks you can always drop to SQL. If you build project „SQL first” you robbed yourself from ORM upsides and you are bound to badly implement your own one in the long run.