It's amazing coming at software from a data perspective, my assumption that people would know about SQL and databases is just so so wrong all of the time.
ORMs definitely don't help! In my first dev role I worked at a C# shop and everything was through Entity Framework. You can't take that skill with you if you change languages to Python, or Haskell, or whatever, but the core SQL skills to follow you around. It's worth the effort, I think (and it's not particularly hard to get semi-decent at SQL!).
