I really do disagree with you. Most of the example code that comes out of ms is just downright terrible, and encourages terrible code. They're always writing as

I really do disagree with you. Most of the example code that comes out of ms is just downright terrible, and encourages terrible code. They're always writing as if you're working for Reddit or Facebook scale, not the code 99.99% of their customers should be writing. I downloaded a random git project to load test a signalr app yesterday because for whatever silly compile reason I couldn't get the one inside aspnetcore to compile (which is a whole massive problem with "modern" .net in itself, how are we back to DLL hell?). It was hundreds of lines long, didn't work properly, and once I'd culled the crap, pointless, boilerplate was a whole 20 lines. C# really is great, you can write a lot with some really clear, obvious, terse code. But the awful, over-engineered, useless code that seemingly 75% of C# developers write is not, it's unreadable crap that adds nothing to performance, massively hinders readability and tarnishes the language.