Microsoft wanted to unify their developer story around UWP (in all it's incarnations) and that never took hold. This is a realization of that and re-focus on b

Microsoft wanted to unify their developer story around UWP (in all it's incarnations) and that never took hold. This is a realization of that and re-focus on bringing all their development frameworks up to modern standards (even Winforms!) Supporting developers were they are is likely to be much more successful than supporting developers were they wanted them to go.