Most of these boil down to "It's different from C++. I'm used to C++". Though I do agree that you shouldn't have to check whether an event has any subscribers

Most of these boil down to "It's different from C++. I'm used to C++". Though I do agree that you shouldn't have to check whether an event has any subscribers before raising it. It's possible to DRY that out with an extension method on EventHandler/EventHandler<T>.