Strongly agree - as someone much more comfortable within the node ecosystem, there's several libraries I'd rather use in place of Nest's choices. However it makes a great starting point for people not aware of the other options and who need an opinionated bootstrap.

If anyone's wondering my current template is routing-controllers, class-validator, tssyringe, and sequelize-typescript.

Separate issue, but if anyone can suggest a different query builder / orm in typescript that'd be truly appreciated. Imo typeorm is too much of an abstraction and sequelize works but requires custom types ever since v5