I think ORMs mostly exist because most programming languages tend to lack an elegant way to write SQL and interact with results. Somewhat ironically, the much-maligned CFML (aka ColdFusion) got this right decades ago. It made SQL string building trivial, and it provided a native data type for tabular query results.
No other language I'm aware of has this, and it's the missing piece in many modern ecosystems. They do not need an ORM. They need better ergonomics for interacting with databases: a clean way to compose queries, execute them, and work with the result as structured relational data rather than shoehorning it into application objects.