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in my experience, you can be very productive with dotnet if you stay on the well-traveled path.

I would not use it for private projects, but i like the opinionated defaults in a small team org setting. If your org is full on Microsoft ecosystem (Azure AD, Windows Server, ..) anyway, it fits in very well.

you don't have to be clever or reinvent the wheel because 90% of standard use cases are well documented in microsoft docs. it has a steep learning curve though (e.g. auth in aspnet).