I've ran into this a little bit as well, but I feel the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages. Once you understand the basics, your code becomes so much clea

I've ran into this a little bit as well, but I feel the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages. Once you understand the basics, your code becomes so much cleaner. You do have to be careful for hidden pitfalls, like an accidental N+1 select against the database, but even that is usually fixed pretty easily if you simple call .Include() in the original expression. From the article, I really don't understand the concept of not updating your knowledge of Linq. It's been out for years now. And then the first concern is with performance? That sounds very problematic to me. There are a lot of .NET developers out there that are still stuck in the previous decade. There are a lot of shops that are still on 2.5, which is too bad, because that was when the framework and C# really started to take off.