If they've replaced it with something else in the last decade and a half that does not mean that they didn't get rid of it, or that it wasn't short lived.
Yeh. Linq to sql was a much more lightweight extension than EF, and was killed due to internal warring at MS.
Database people were investing a lot of time and energy on doing things “properly” with EF, and this scrappy little useful tool, linq to sql, was seen as a competitor.
