It's not simply a matter of "uncomfortable" syntactic sugar. It's a fundamental change from a statement to an expression. Also, there is an elegance to the fun

It's not simply a matter of "uncomfortable" syntactic sugar. It's a fundamental change from a statement to an expression. Also, there is an elegance to the functional style of pattern matching. And C# has been incorporating a lot of functional paradigms for more than a decade now which may initially feel "out of place" but ultimately benefited the language greatly.