Maybe if you started life as a VB6 developer. But your original post especially doesn't make sense because the default Debug configuration has always put the d

Maybe if you started life as a VB6 developer. But your original post especially doesn't make sense because the default Debug configuration has always put the debug symbols in a separate PDB file. So even if you were arguing that early C# developers didn't understand how to use their tools, they wouldn't have had the source embedded in the EXE.