That's a matter of opinion, nothing looks worse to me than those out parameters and there's always a way to do things in a cleaner more expressive way than that

That's a matter of opinion, nothing looks worse to me than those out parameters and there's always a way to do things in a cleaner more expressive way than that ugliness. I find many Smalltalk idioms look and work just fine in C# and greatly reduce the amount of code I need to write. C# still lacks quite a lot in comparison to Smalltalk, but it's slowly getting there year by year.