[himaraya]

I see -- most complaints I've heard about .NET Core relate to F#'s status as a second-class citizen vis a vis compatibility problems, which have recently resolved.

I'm with you on AOT, but I think the language makes more sense if you understand it as a .NET port of OCaml. If you isolated F# from CLR, you'd lose libraries and tooling, arguably F#'s raison d'etre, pleasant design choices aside.