Prisma has pivoted to be “just” a Node.JS ORM a few years ago (I work there). You can still use it to build an API of course, but you will need some additional tool or libraries.

Why did Prisma pivot to this? It sounded to me that offering a ready-to-go GraphQL API ala Firebase was a great idea and could certainly turn good profits.

Maybe.

We observed that people migrated off as soon as the applications went into production or were serious, as the database<->api approach did not actually give them all the flexibility they wanted.

(This was 3 years ago, the players that stayed in that market or entered later, of course learned from that and adapted. So I hear they are making their users happy. As are we as an ORM.)