Right, this one has, a lot of other public or runtime-internal Try* methods have not. And even tho this particular one has existed for a long time, that doesn'

Right, this one has, a lot of other public or runtime-internal Try* methods have not. And even tho this particular one has existed for a long time, that doesn't mean it was used consistently in the runtime or in the popular first and third party frameworks. I'd argue the Try*-style, while artifacts of it were present before already, only really became widely idiomatic with dotnetcore.