I am tired of PDFs. They should have a dedicated website for presenting C++ proposals so everyone can comment and discuss. Reading Github issues are more enjoyable than reading PDFs.
Yes ORM let me write plain SQL. But most time I find painful is the session management inside ORM. When does it decides to flush the query, and how it terminates an idle connection. In async mode, how does it add locks? When I try to customize the connection pool, and then all pain drives me away from ORM.