And I'm sure some COBOL developer out there is working on new projects. That doesn't change the fact that .NET roots are in old enterprise and Java - which was

And I'm sure some COBOL developer out there is working on new projects. That doesn't change the fact that .NET roots are in old enterprise and Java - which was dumbed down by design to make it easy to onboard unskilled developers (look at their arguments against local type inference and lambdas before they were added). Things like ASP.NET core slam you with heavy duty abstractions from ground up and justify it by project scaling and reducing maintenance cost at the expense of iteration speed - again tradeoffs made for large enterprise const center style projects. With recent iterations (minimal APIs, top level functions, namespace declaration, etc.) they are trying to reduce those tradeoffs and cater to the startup crowd but the MS + corporate budget development stigma is going to be there.