[Guillaume86]

I can but the DX would still be miserable, starting a local instance would still incur the cost of building the model, and a dev need to do that a lot of times during a day.

I can't split the model without massive refactorings, and even then, some tables are common across all modules and would need to be duplicated. Your advice is unfortunately the standard answer in my case, I guess EF Core is just not for me, really disappointing but "c'est la vie".

edit: ha you probably mean commit it in source control so other devs can also use it? I guess it's a compromise, would still slow down our DbContext refresh command a lot.