The query it generates when performing the query, could be used to create a precedent or use with ADO?
Yes.
The problem is that it is in a much more convenient format for manipulation by the Entity Framework than by a logic that you can develop.
Or is it exactly the query it generates that makes it slow?
In fact the query runs very fast. The problem is the transliteration of a result line into an object.
There are a number of rules that the Entity Framework uses to perform this transformation, and there are also a number of techniques to optimize speed, such as using Reflection
to generate runtime classes and save time by defining objects in a static approach.
There is also the lazy load that makes this time increase considerably, since the Entity Framework needs to open a connection and execute a query for each aggregate entity of the original entity.
Completion
The Dapper was created precisely to solve this performance problem that you want to combat. I suggest taking a look instead of using pure ADO.NET.