[cmdkeen]

It changed during the pre-1.0 era when the team were very clear about the potential for changes. The big changes were made with plenty of notice and short term backwards compatibility baked in. MVC 5 is still there and still being supported - deliberately choosing to use Core should have been a calculated decision based on what you needed and appetite for risk. If there's a bad influence from the world of JS it seems much more around devs deciding to go into production with "the new hotness".

Moving to npm/bower for front end stuff makes perfect sense, NuGet is a horrible way to deliver client side code, wasn't supported by the majority of library producers and was unknown by anyone who didn't have a .Net background.

[jsingleton]

I expected changes at the beta stage. I did not expect the major changes between RC1 and RC2. Try writing a book against a moving target! :)

I think all the changes now are due to that late switch of direction. RC2 went straight to 1.0 but it was a major change and should probably have had some more beta/RC releases.