That hasn’t been true for some time.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

The reason to dislike .NET is Microsoft’s now weak engineering. Their cloud team has negative impact on the entire org, and Microsoft engineers like Raymond Chen seem to be a rarity.

Even former cash cows like Windows and Office are struggling and infected with Nadella and Azure/Entra/365/who-knows-what-next’s touch.