I guess the whole .net core mess made sense in the beginning, it just got out of hand. As I understand it, core was conceived as an experimental alternative ru

I guess the whole .net core mess made sense in the beginning, it just got out of hand. As I understand it, core was conceived as an experimental alternative runtime which made it possible to run asp.net on non-windows platforms. It was not initially planned to be the replacement for full .net framework, so it didn't need to be fully backwards-compatible with the regular framework, which saved them some effort in the beginning. When the strategy changed to make core the next version of .net, the incompatibilites was so entrenched it was too late to solve, so we ended up with this enormous mess.