[CuriousSkeptic]

This. So much this!

Especially Microsoft has a tendency to throw out frameworks and helpers that just don’t provide the needed flexibility, and once that has been addressed what’s left is a heap of extensibility points that wrap three lines of useful logic in hundreds of lines of framework code.

So if I could ask one thing of platform developers it is to leave the framework design to the user, and just provide useful primitives. The two hours spent on writing the extra glue code is easily saved on the days spent trying to learn the framework.