Sometimes, sometimes not. You can often compress a lot of
¶meter=value
into a simple
/value/
rewrite. This - by most accounts - makes it more SEO friendly. Granted, putting full sentences that match an article title is never necessary, but there are a lot of SEO tricks that can make a url not only "nicer" looking but also shorter.
i.e. sites that show on page with the url http://www.example.com and another page with the URL http://www.example.com and even after another click the URL http://www.example.com with completely new content
and sites, that use a logic like this http://www.example.com/357893857435/sfjsfsfsfd/this-should-b... where http://www.example.com/357893857435/sfjsfsfsfd/this-is-shoul... and http://www.example.com/357893857435/sfjsfsfsfd/tHIS-is-the-s... show the same page, oh and of course http://www.example.com/357893857435/sfjsfsfsfd also shows the same page.
oh, and cases where http://www.example.com/click1/click2/click3/item-id/123 show the same page as http://www.example.com/click1/item-id/123 which show the same page as http://www.example.com/click1/click2/click3/click4/item-id/1...
all of the examples above are far worse than bvb.de