You're right, and that's what great about ORMs! But if you're asking a question ...

wvenable on July 3, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam

You're right, and that's what great about ORMs! But if you're asking a question of your data, like "how many widgets did I sell today?" then navigating a conceptional graph of data is the slowest, most convoluted, way of getting at that information.