[GA] Fix performance degradation in converters because the instance was not reused #36898
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Backport of #36895.
Description
Change to support NativeAOT in EF Core 9 (experimental feature) introduced new code path that resulted in new instances of value converters on primitive collections being recreated on every entity created and hence recompiling the expression on every call.
Customer impact
Significant performance degradation when fetching primitive collections data with value converters from database.
How found
Customer reported.
Regression
Yes, from 8.
Testing
Manual testing.
Risk
Low. Feature flag added.