.NET magic is generally limiting things down so that happy path works and edge cases are expensive. Other platforms do a much better job of this because they st

.NET magic is generally limiting things down so that happy path works and edge cases are expensive. Other platforms do a much better job of this because they start on an edge and make that run through happy path by convention. I can't speak to it being language limitations or just the way Microsoft works, but they almost always seem to get this part wrong. See ASP.NET MVC Routing as a example (kinda related to the above).