Thanks a lot for the input, that's quite enlightening - seems like I have been browsing everything but the "Platform" target... Puh, yeah, I see what you mean,

Thanks a lot for the input, that's quite enlightening - seems like I have been browsing everything but the "Platform" target... Puh, yeah, I see what you mean, much the stuff in [2] and [3] is rather...bespoke, especially compared to the minimal and mvc targets. Not really what I'd consider "realistic" as per the benchmark's definition. But TBH, I wouldn't consider [1] gross, on the contrary - simple, fast, lightweight Razor templating without other MVC (or other external) dependencies isn't that unusual a use case and something I've often thought ASP.NET Core was missing (even Razor Pages feel like overkill if you just want to quickly generate some dynamic HTML).