Right, which was my point. They used Linq to get around the limitations of an ORM more-so than using an ORM itself (by fetching an entity and accessing its 'field'). They're evading the N+1 problem by writing a query by hand still, just not in SQL itself.
The bit about lazy loading was a bit of a side-note more than my main point.
The bit about lazy loading was a bit of a side-note more than my main point.