Even an "industry standard" framework can get in the way. Given the constraints of executing efficient queries; handling errors and timeouts on the application's terms; and enforcing concurrency and transaction handling policies even a "good" ORM can be more a problem than a solution.
All of those will be worse off by hand-made “solutions”. Especially that you are not forced to use ORM for everything. Use it for like 90% of your generic db usage, and use its in-built escape hatches for the rest, like native queries or go straight to the db driver if needed.
