I think that it takes many years to change a reputation - more than 4. A lot of devs don't like learning new things and they would have gotten deep into a diffe

I think that it takes many years to change a reputation - more than 4. A lot of devs don't like learning new things and they would have gotten deep into a different ecosystem before .NET was really open source. You note that they open sourced it 7 years ago, but the original .NET Core was kinda an experiment. Microsoft didn't quite seem to know where they'd ultimately go with it. I think Microsoft really committed to it in 2018 or 2019. I think you also might have unrealistic expectations of how quickly things can be accomplished. Flutter is over 6 years old and still feels a bit mediocre to me - and I think Flutter is trying to solve a simpler problem since it isn't using native widgets. For cross-platform UI, I think there is some disappointment in the .NET community. MAUI has succeeded Xamarin (except for Linux), but I think your sentiment that Microsoft isn't investing in it enough is shared by many in the community. I think the problem is that Microsoft bit off more than it can chew with MAUI. Avalonia, Flutter, Compose Multiplatform, Electron, etc. tend to just paint non-native widgets via Skia or JS/HTML. With MAUI, Microsoft is offering actual native interfaces which means having to deal with a lot of platform differences to implement that rather than just painting their own widgets with a graphics library. I'm not trying to talk you out of being disappointed with MAUI. It has been disappointing. However, I'm still hopeful for it simply because it's the only effort I see trying to offer a native cross-platform UI dev experience. Flutter, Avalonia, Compose Multiplatform, etc. are all saying "We'll just take a window and paint our stuff in it. Do you really care about an app feeling native?" It isn't always important, but it does feel like so many given up on native apps. I'm hopeful that MAUI will keep getting better (as it has been) and that we'll have the opportunity for a native UI experience in the future.