Why use Entity Framework – Justifications

Learning EF takes a lot of time, changing code to use EF is risky, so what are the justifications for considering this.

Entity Framework is listed in NuGet as Microsoft’s recommended data access technology.
You need a lot less code to get and fill objects and reduces the amount of code that you need to write
Closer to OO
It appears to be here to stay
It keeps getting better
Data sets are not being developed
Works well with WPF
You will learn and get better at it in time