I'm not familiar with LINQ and even though it might be a good solution we're not debating GraphQL vs LINQ (which, as far as I can tell, is specific to C#, at le

I'm not familiar with LINQ and even though it might be a good solution we're not debating GraphQL vs LINQ (which, as far as I can tell, is specific to C#, at least its reference implementation), I'm questioning your "string is bad" statement which, IMHO, doesn't make any sense.