Why to use Entity Manager instead of plain Node::load when loading nodes and entities Tue, 09/25/2018 Some explanation why it is better to use $node = \Drupal::entityManager()->getStorage('node')->load($nid);than $node = Node::load($nid);https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2945539 Drupal 8 Modules View the discussion thread.