The EF dismay? Please elaborate.

It's a common emotion from people who have investigated using the EF to write real life data applications. ;-) It's not universal, but when somebody claims that the EF is just hunky dory, a good first question would be "what sort of MVP are you" followed up with "when will your book be published?" ;-) It's just the way of IT- check out the people promoting Vista right here in UT long after much of the market had decided it wasn't a real-life proposition.

For the record I'm not anti-EF, I just don't think it is a productive way to work with classical databases. At this point somebody usually pops up to say that it can query XML and all sorts of other amazing swiss-army-knife stuff, but I'm too weary to get into all that when we all know that in the real world data is almost always in a SQL database- and also that the database may not be SQL Server 2008 R2.