It was pretty simple up until the whole netcore fork and netstandard confusion. Then it was confusing for a number of years. And now it's actually pretty simple

It was pretty simple up until the whole netcore fork and netstandard confusion. Then it was confusing for a number of years. And now it's actually pretty simple again. The naming of ".NET" and ".NET Framework" is confusing as hell. But basically Microsoft is hellbent on launching something completely new and having that take over the .NET name, even if it means years of confusion.