ORM isn't silly - its useful and necessary. It's just a bridge between two silos. Yes I agree that it is annoying. The deeper question is why is it necessary at all? I think the database itself is an anti-pattern and maybe we will look back at it one day as quite the silly idea. We want to implement computation processes that span multiple machines, implement persistence, synchrony across large systems. But the way we write these today first requires a lot of model duplication and then requires us to build bridges to connect all the duplicated models.

check out kafka and KLSQL, you perform queries on events that happened

Oh this is actually a problem I’ve been thinking about one possible solution to