I think C# has been doing really well... I've appreciated the efforts to open the platform since Core... Though I do know a few devs that have been at it as long as I have that don't like the faster lifecycle since the move from Framework.

Hello from one of them, while I appreciate the modernisation (with learnings from Midori as well), and officially going cross platform, it appears that some features are for the sake to keep the team size.

Most of our agency projects that have .NET in them, are brown field ongoing projects that mostly focus on .NET Framework, thus we end up only using modern .NET when given the opportunity to deliver new microservices, and the customer happens to be a .NET shop.

The last time this happened, .NET 8 had just been released, and most devs I work with tend to be journeyman they aren't chasing programming language blogs to find out what changes in each release, or online communities, they do the agency work and go home for friends, family and non programming related hobbies.