The thing with ORMs is that they buy you a lot of fancy stuff as well - scaffolding/crud templates, they integrate in to your development workflow (under source control, in the same language as the rest of your code base).
I'm not really a fan of ORMs - I think it's fundamentally an inferior approach and I think clojure/yesql or (presumably) Dapper like micro ORMs are much better where you treat query results like values instead of objects - but at the same time an enormous ammount of work went in to ORMs and a lot of developers are familiar with them to the point where they can do their job in 90% of the cases - and for that 10% case you have the senior dev or a DBA can step in - this IMO is a big value proposition that shouldn't be ignored.
I'm not really a fan of ORMs - I think it's fundamentally an inferior approach and I think clojure/yesql or (presumably) Dapper like micro ORMs are much better where you treat query results like values instead of objects - but at the same time an enormous ammount of work went in to ORMs and a lot of developers are familiar with them to the point where they can do their job in 90% of the cases - and for that 10% case you have the senior dev or a DBA can step in - this IMO is a big value proposition that shouldn't be ignored.