ORMs have largely been fading away for a while because there are real wins of not using them.

Hyper-optimized HTTP request/response parsing? Yawn. Far less interesting.

AFAICT, the advantages of keeping context tight and focused have not gone away. So there would neeed to be pretty interesting advantages to not just doing the easy thing.

Build times too. I kinda doubt you're setting up strictly-modularized and tightly-controlled bazel builds for all your stuff to avoid extra recompilation... so why are we overcomplicating the easy stuff? Just because "it will probably function just as well"?

"leftpad"-level library inanity? Sure, even less need than before (there was never much). Substantial libraries? What's the point?

Hell, some of the most-used heavily-AI-coded software is going the opposite direction and jumping through hoops to keep using web libraries for UI even though they're terminal apps.