I feel, that the perception of DFT has been somewhat blurred by a questionable statement that, one way or another, is frequently found in textbooks and articles. This is the statement that DFT is distinguished from wave-function methods by using the electron density instead of a wave function to calculate the total energy of an electronic system. This statement is at least misleading if not wrong because most DFT methods used in practice are Kohn-Sham or generalized Kohn-Sham methods, which require orbitals and thus one-electron wave functions to calculate crucial parts of the total energy.