...which I'm also not a big fan of after having seen their implications in older products (i.e. ones that had to be maintained for a while). In most cases, they

...which I'm also not a big fan of after having seen their implications in older products (i.e. ones that had to be maintained for a while). In most cases, they made the problem worse. Plus, while they are enabled by other techniques, those weren't invented in LINQ, either.