[debok]

The ASP.NET framework is nice. I had more struggles with Entity Framework, to the point where I regretted not just writing raw SQL for my data access needs.

This was also back in 2019 when I last did serious work in C#, so things might have changed a lot since then.

[andix]

If you did .NET Core in 2019 then it's still very similar, with many improvements here and there.

From my experience ASP.NET Core and EF Core are very good frameworks, usually the horror starts when developers start building their own framework on top of it, instead of keeping it simple.