[BrandonLive]

That's not how I read it. Rather, it makes sense for a cloud-focused company/development team to focus on efforts aligned with that cloud-focused strategy. The work in .NET Core and ASP .NET Core clearly fits this description.

[talles]

Having things modular have a myriad of benefits, fitting the cloud being just one of them. Making things modular is good design in my book way before the term "cloud" even existed.

[oblio]

Modular things also have drawbacks. They need to be versioned, deployment is a lot more complicated, etc.

I feel that in the case of .NET Core claiming that the changes were cloud-focused is valid. After all, .NET was already in place and Microsoft didn't really need to make it that modular. It did do it and it spent a lot of resources doing it, in order to follow its cloud strategy.