Honestly, you can get pretty far with just Bun and a very small number of dependencies. It’s what I love most about Bun. But, I do agree with you generally. .NET is about as good as I’ve ever seen for being batteries included. I just hate the enterprisey culture that always seems to pervade .NET shops.

I agree about the culture. If I take my eye off the dev team for too long, I'll come back and we'll be using entity framework and a 20 page document about configuring code cleanup rules in visual studio.