It's a personal choice, I think OO makes modelling large systems easier. At that point you can use an ORM.

If you prefer procedural code, then obviously ORMs are no use to you...

I mean love various programming paradigms, I like Haskell, but it can make things difficult. For example programming a basic game in haskell, is far from simple. You normally have to introduce reactive programming to make it sane.

I find OO makes large systems easier.

In my opinion the amount of boilerplate required for JDBC makes ORM a must in java...