I agree with your comment, but I disagree a both the example opinions... complex is the discussion :D

I heard something that helps better framing those discussions, use "familiar" instead of "simple".

An highly abstract way to access a database table, with ORM for example, can be simple because everyone is expecting it and knows how to do all tasks (changing schema, troubleshooting, managing transactions, etc.).

Doing userService.pgSql("select ....") in the same way can be simple.