LOL. I feel like a geezer whenever I talk to people about what enterprise software was before RoR came along. XML. So much XML. Do you think that you should write XML in order to query data from a DB with a perfectly serviceable query language? People sure did think that in 2001!
You joke, but honestly, it's still the same class of problem. I don't think I should write TypeScript in order to query a DB with a perfectly serviceable query language, either, and I've seen so much time get spent on dealing with the headaches condign upon leaky abstractions to render the productivity benefits claimed by ORM proponents transparently nonsensical. And yet...
