[aikah]

> None of this unique to LINQ but it hides a lot of problems behind a wall of pain.

There is your problem and it isn't LINQ. You'd have the same problem with C# without it. LINQ is a good declarative tool when declarative programming makes sense : data pipelines. And LINQ is 'lazy'...

You should be glad that an imperative language succeeded in getting declarative features. And that makes C# better than the competition in the same space, even though I never use MS techs.