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Really? I had a very different experience. I mostly just used the official Phoenix docs and never touched ecto. It was a strictly optional thing I didn't need, so I didn't touch it.

I did look at some other tutorials and I don't recall ever having issues because I wasn't using ecto. Either they weren't using it or I got what I needed anyway.

This was probably about a year ago or so. Maybe things changed at some point?