I use an ORM because it is cheap, easy, quick, uses a known quantity database which is readily available and deployable and allows me to solve my business case with relatively low complexity exposure and risk.
Best tool for the job. Best, as subjectively defined by me, for my needs as I see them in this un-black-and-white world.
Idealism is the enemy of done and I care about done (with proper engineering constraints) much more than "right". I care even less about trying to define a vague approximation of "right" when there's things to get "done" and the ORM I use is tried and tested to get things done.
That's my use case. Done. That's my tool for that use case.
Everything else is balancing debt, risk and entropy. Right doesn't factor into it for me.
It is quite liberating.