[misterjangles]

In my case it just saves a lot of time on "plumbing" code. Having DB entities represented consistently as objects is helpful for doing all kinds of things. - having events fire on save or delete, hooks for business-logic validation, etc. boring stuff perhaps but time-saving and keeps things really well organized.

My ORM of choice doesn't take away the ability to write raw SQL when you want, though. I wouldn't want to use an ORM where you couldn't extend it with your own SQL.