Because you only need the specific features in a tiny amount of cases, while 99% is some flavour of SELECT * ... LEFT JOIN ... (If it's not, then sure, ORM would be annoying)
Making that 99% smaller, simpler and automatically mapping to common types makes development a lot easier/faster. This applies to pretty much any higher level language. It's why you can write in C, but embed an ASM fragment for that one very specific thing instead of going 100% with either one.
Making that 99% smaller, simpler and automatically mapping to common types makes development a lot easier/faster. This applies to pretty much any higher level language. It's why you can write in C, but embed an ASM fragment for that one very specific thing instead of going 100% with either one.