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> The alternatives (spring, flask/falcon, lightbend) all seemed much more modern and easy to work with

I never thought I'd see Spring(or any of those) described as more modern and easy to work with than .Net haha. Spring is the Java land web framework bloatlord. It's quickly fallen behind and out of favor in recent years with the hip crowd preferring micro frameworks like Quarkus or Micronaut. Spring abandoned hot-reload in favor of restarting app context which takes FOR EV ER on larger projects; .Net is releasing hot reload as a first class platform feature as we speak.

.Net runtime is one of the hotest pieces of action on the planet. AOT compile, multi-core threading, async/await, Span<T>. Mono is pulling its weight too with compile to WASM. Then you have ASP.NET, Entity Framework, and a lot of other really great and performant build blocks.