Well before LLMs, I already ditched ORMs. What sometimes holds back SQL is not having a convenient way to call it. Statically-typed languages require you to manually set result types unless you use a compile-time query builder, but that's a whole can of worms. Besides that, many client libs aren't so convenient out of the box, so you still need a few of your own helpers.

Also, before jsonb existed, you'd often run into big blobs of properties you don't care to split up into tables. Now it takes some discipline to avoid shoving things into jsonb that shouldn't be.