It definitely sounds like you are making the right decision for your particular use case, and I mostly prefer ORMs that are fairly minimal. That is, they don't try to do everything for me. Instead they help make a few common use cases easier and get out of my way otherwise.
This post wasn't really intended to say situations like yours are wrong, but rather I think it is a bad idea to just blanket-label ORMs as bad. ORMs themselves aren't bad, but when they are used improperly I have definitely seen things get out of hand very quickly.
A similar metaphor would be a knife - a knife in itself isn't bad. We all use them in our kitchen when cooking and have no issues. But if someone accidentally cuts off a finger how are we all going to react to it?
I think it is safe to assume that most of us won't run around saying "All knives are bad! Stop using them!", yet this appears to be what is happening in some Go communities with regards to ORMs and it is mostly a result of people hurting themselves when using an ORM in a past language like Django, Rails, or something else.
This post was meant to help illustrate what some of those pains are. To point out exactly how people are hurting themselves with ORMs, and how those issues could be avoided.
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It definitely sounds like you are making the right decision for your particular use case, and I mostly prefer ORMs that are fairly minimal. That is, they don't try to do everything for me. Instead they help make a few common use cases easier and get out of my way otherwise.
This post wasn't really intended to say situations like yours are wrong, but rather I think it is a bad idea to just blanket-label ORMs as bad. ORMs themselves aren't bad, but when they are used improperly I have definitely seen things get out of hand very quickly.
A similar metaphor would be a knife - a knife in itself isn't bad. We all use them in our kitchen when cooking and have no issues. But if someone accidentally cuts off a finger how are we all going to react to it?
I think it is safe to assume that most of us won't run around saying "All knives are bad! Stop using them!", yet this appears to be what is happening in some Go communities with regards to ORMs and it is mostly a result of people hurting themselves when using an ORM in a past language like Django, Rails, or something else.
This post was meant to help illustrate what some of those pains are. To point out exactly how people are hurting themselves with ORMs, and how those issues could be avoided.