I did some exploratory analysis on sqlc some time ago and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to parametrize which column to sort-by and group-by in queries.

It is quite neat, but I don't think it actually replaces a proper ORM for when ORMs are actually useful for. That on top of all the codegen pitfalls.

I personally quite like the Prisma approach which doesn't map database data to objects, but rather just returns an array of tuples based on your query (and no lazy loading of anything ever). With typescript types being dynamically computed based on the queries. It has its own pitfalls as well (like no types when using raw queries).