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ORMs are stupid. Get rid of them.
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Who says it's not?
This is what you're doing with or without an ORM. It's just a question of which language you're doing it it.
Again, this is what you're doing with or without an ORM. When you have business-layer changes that require data schema changes, orchestrating those schema changes in a way that preserves data is a thing you have to do. If you're not using an ORM and associated tooling, you're doing it by hand.
ORMs are NOT intended to make the database layer something you can swap out on a whim. That's a pretty common belief, but it's a fallacy.