Yep. Dapper is far simpler. All the relationship navigation and deferred loading of related entities is clever but takes effort to optimize and is too easily abused.
Every large team I've seen use it (EF) ends up with slow horrible queries generated that DBAs see hitting the database thinking WTF?
Every large team I've seen use it (EF) ends up with slow horrible queries generated that DBAs see hitting the database thinking WTF?