[luuio]

@David, thanks, and completely aligned on why we don't use nuget packages anymore.

> As for being intuitive, the default experience is to use the Web SDK. I didn't even get into SDKs but it does more than default the framework reference. It also exposes capabilities that tooling use to light up behaviors in the build and in the IDE.

It is these "does more than default framework reference" are precisely the things in discussion here. All of these hidden functionalities and dependencies are like a black box. What's the difference between what James shared here and the default Sdk=...Web, then? It's the lack of uniformity, where "ASP.NET is a first class citizen" rather than just another piece of the ecosystem that is a turn off.

Compared to other ecosystems, for example: Go, Rust, even Java for example, where everything is just code that one can pull in, and the customization is in the code, not the runtime/JVM.