Yeah this is probably one of the biggest pain points, but modern tooling is really helping to the tide on this. Dependency management is never fun in any langua

Yeah this is probably one of the biggest pain points, but modern tooling is really helping to the tide on this. Dependency management is never fun in any language, and .NET has some quirks which make it a challenge as you say. I switched to .NET from java about 5 years ago now and I'm pretty I !are the switch as .NET just keeps getting better. Dependency management is one of the last pieces of the puzzle to really solve for in terms of getting a much better experience. That said if you're starting a brand new .NET project today you can set up your CI/CD pipelines to do Continuous Deployment and use Renovate to automatically upgrade your dependencies and merge if your tests are green. In addition the trend is for smaller codebases these days which makes it far easier to upgrade major versions of dependencies due to much smaller scope of breaking changes. I think those two things in combination eliminate some of the pain we've all felt with not being able to upgrade several years out of date dependencies in huge monolithic codebases. I'm pretty excited for the future of .NET to be honest.