This is a very well-written and carefully thought-out article. Even though I am not sure I agree with it, your reasoning is strong.

I am sort of in the reverse boat - I'm in charge of a project which makes heavy use of an ORM for the first time (in 40 years of programming).

It's SQLAlchemy, and to be honest, I love it to pieces and I haven't found anything wrong with it yet.

But unlike most critical articles, you are specific, and clear, and reasonable.

I'm going to re-read this and keep it in my mind.

I don't think we're going to drop the ORM (and if we do, we're actually more likely to go to a hard-coded datastore in C++ or some compiled language, because our database is completely immutable), but it's really good to know about the drawbacks of the whole idea.

Have some claps!!