[paulio]

I agree with what you’ve said. The solution structure, msbuild and the general tooling all seems a bit confused.

It doesn’t help that sometimes dubious tooling was pushed as the correct way to do things, for example runtime JavaScript minification (a.k.a. bundles).

I think generally they are trying phase out some existing tooling while trying to adapt Visual Studio to new tooling.

TLDR; Right tool for the job.