Drupal isn't alone here. Mediawiki without caching does some horrible stuff. I just loaded a random page (with caching turned off) that does 1874 database que

Drupal isn't alone here. Mediawiki without caching does some horrible stuff. I just loaded a random page (with caching turned off) that does 1874 database queries. For one page. That it still loads in 7 seconds is a miracle.