Why are the manipulation statements of SQL more widely used than the definition and control statements? code example

Example: what is data manipulation language

DML
1-It stands for Data Manipulation Language.
2-It is used to add, retrieve or update the data.
3-It add or update the row of the table. These rows are called as tuple.
4-It is further classified into Procedural and Non-Procedural DML.
5-BASIC command present in DML are UPDATE, INSERT, MERGE etc.
6-While DML uses WHERE clause in its statement.