I came from a Rails background and it was definitely painful to learn EF since it has a lot of nuances and things you wouldn't know without experience (e.g. How

I came from a Rails background and it was definitely painful to learn EF since it has a lot of nuances and things you wouldn't know without experience (e.g. How things mutate throughout the object lifecycle, migration funkiness, how tracking works and 'AsNoTracking()' etc.) Think I'd still prefer ActiveRecord really but after you get used to EF (Core) it's still a good tool.