It's not that insert_all is encouraging anything wrong; it's that the normal way to use ActiveRecord does. insert_all is the right way to do things performance-wise, so you'd want to use it when possible, but if you were using other features of the framework like callbacks/validations for create/update, then you can't. The happy-path of an ORM tends to push you in a direction where bad performance all over the place is the default, and it does it in a way where if you didn't have properly calibrated performance expectations, you might think that the bottleneck is because IO is slow, but actually it could easily handle 10x the workload with better access patterns.
