And the ORM free code has massive downsides, not limited to if you add/change a column code can break at runtime, not compile time.

The negatives of not using an ORM is far worse than the negatives of not reigning in some developers who shouldn't be making complex queries.

If they don't even know how to check the SQL their complex ORM query produces, that's a training problem, not an ORM problem.

It's one of our great weaknesses as a profession, assuming everyone will figure stuff out on their own.