Subjectively speaking, I'm not a huge fan of Entity Framework (I generally approach all ORMs with a bit of caution). Actually, there are a lot of Microsoft frameworks I've come to loathe over the years (MFC, UWP- my goodness that one was a catastrophe, WCF, ATL). Again subjectively speaking, C# started off on incredibly solid ground (as it was designed by the guy responsible for Delphi), but has gotten increasingly bloated over the years. I'm not one of those people who thinks that everything that Microsoft does is awful though. I ask more WTF questions about their product-planning folks than their engineers.

And I know Windows gets a lot of crap (sometimes rightfully so, and I certainly wouldn't choose it as a back-end server environment), but as a client OS, no one's been able to (yet) knock it off its perch. That in particular is ironic because Linux started off as client OS. I know MacPhiles would argue that the Mac is better, but I use them both daily, and I do not agree. Windows with WSL2 checks a lot of the boxes.