You're totally right on all those changes, and I think all of those things were the bane of .NET development. Getting rid of all the cruft in one swift operatio

You're totally right on all those changes, and I think all of those things were the bane of .NET development. Getting rid of all the cruft in one swift operation was life-changing. Finally being able to junk IIS and deploy web apps to Linux running their own tight little web server (Kestrel) is fantastic.