I would consider this still VERY big. It's ok for backend stuff. But now you can also use .NET --Core-- with WinForms, WPF and WinUI. That means, GUI Apps. You

I would consider this still VERY big. It's ok for backend stuff. But now you can also use .NET --Core-- with WinForms, WPF and WinUI. That means, GUI Apps. You'll have several GUI apps installed on user system... UWP already handled that years ago, thought. .msix/.appx supports dependency properly. If the app target's a new .NET version, and it doesn't have downloaded, it just.... download automatically on install. UWP .NET on Windows it's also inside .appx packages.