[ChymeraXYZ]

> And with good ORMs like Entity Framework the underlying queries they generate are predictable.

Right up until they are not and generate crap. I went from "predictable" EF generated queries to handcrafted ones reduced the load on the DB by about 70% while having more queries per second...

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from personal experience this was a much larger problem during .net framework days. Now with EFcore, most generated queries are much more sane and performant