I don’t do much development anymore, but this is always how I felt when ORM’s like Hibernate came out. At first they were amazing and were used for everything. Eventually it became obvious that as the complexity of the code went up linearly, the difficulty of troubleshooting and optimizing the code went up exponentially.

I learned to only used ORM’s for basic stuff, which they are very much useful, but when things got a little bit complicated to drop back to hand coding SQL.