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I'm a heavy Prefect user and was also very confused about the initial rewrite, even after reading several summaries. My best advice is to just try using 2.0 (Orion). Here's how I'd summarize the difference:

Prefect 1.0 feels like second-gen Airflow--less boilerplate, easy dynamic DAGs, better execution defaults, great local dev, etc etc. It's more sane but you still feel the impedance mismatch from working with an orchestrator.

Prefect 2.0 is a first-principles rewrite that removes most of the friction from interacting with an orchestrator in the first place. Finally, your code can breathe.