Well, their first versions were, when they were initially introduced. Just consider how much legacy cruft C# has accumulated over the years, though. (Does anyon

Well, their first versions were, when they were initially introduced. Just consider how much legacy cruft C# has accumulated over the years, though. (Does anyone remember delegate?) If C# 9 was re-designed from the ground up, it would drop a lot of nonsense from the early days.