Well now I'm reminded of my initial though when a colleague first introduced me to an ORM: "It feels wrong to use this tool to just map every object to a table." Of course I went on to write many, at best, moderately complicated web apps very fast using NHibernate and didn't miss writing vender-specific SQL or column to property mapping boilerplate.

But this article is a breath of fresh air. I may just try Dapper for the next project

http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/