This is an even worse argument for ORMs. Practically every system I've ever built had data access objects that were responsible for persisting and retrieving data. It's trivially easy to write the business rules plain out in whatever language I'm coding in - why would I want to unnecessarily wrap that in some opaque "rando-QL-invented-by-the-ORM-authors" than just specify it directly in code where I'm saving the object(s).