When people say "Oh but now Visual Studio is free for small scale use, .NET core is officially supported on linux" etc. I really just have to ask one question:

When people say "Oh but now Visual Studio is free for small scale use, .NET core is officially supported on linux" etc. I really just have to ask one question: So what? This whole conversation somehow reminds me of the old iPhone vs Android conversations about 5-6 years ago when Android phones started catching up on iPhone in features such as non-lagginess etc. and people were like "So now Android has it too and you have no more excuses not to change to Android now!" Well...hahah...it doesn't really work that way. Even if Android could do everything that iPhone could...why would I still change? Why would I see all that trouble just to gain _NOTHING_. It's same with MS tech stack. Why would I change from tools I know and trust to MS stack when it would take time and money, but I wouldn't get anything? In addition MS has been fucking over people for about two decades and just because they have been seemingly friendly for last few years why would I trust them? Also if one were a software engineer, more or less experienced, and was thinking what tools to use, what do you think? Would he pick the tools used by top engineers and tech companies or embarrasing enterprise tools designed for senile bankers and municipality sinecures who are afraid of tech and want to use tools made by big company they have been repeatedly told since 1980s?