I'm largely with you on this... I prefer the extension methods myself most of the time. Also adjacently worth mentioning that I tend to use Dapper instead of E

I'm largely with you on this... I prefer the extension methods myself most of the time. Also adjacently worth mentioning that I tend to use Dapper instead of EF, so there's even less use of this type of expression all around unless it's actual SQL or assembled SQL via a query builder.