I have not really pirated any PC games in like 11 years. Totally unrelated, my Steam account is 12 years old.
If there are no legal means of acquiring something (e.g. Regional restrictions, discontinued product, etc.) I have absolutely zero qualms about piracy and would say it is justified. Folks who frame it as an entitled position to want to experience something otherwise unavailable, uphold archaic copyright laws. If platform holders, publishers, and developers want folks to pay to play, then the onus is on them to make it available to folks. Games do not stop being relevant just because they are no longer for sale or blocked from sale in a particular country.
Even if things are legally available, there are so many nunaces that I think folks too often sweep under the rug, likely because they are not personally affected by it or they do not care. (e.g. Regional pricing, invasive DRM, etc.) That is a topic for another day, but suffice it to say, the nunaces are just too great a deal to view it as a good or bad. I think the only reason folks view it in such a way is largely due to indies and smaller publishers, which can bring up some completely fair points to consider, but is again, a topic for another post.