Perhaps also in the Open Source world (for obvious reasons), which might reduce people's exposure to it if they haven't used it at work. But agreed that it's more popular in other kinds of business.
i.e. its been fully open source for 4 years https://mattwarren.org/2018/12/04/Open-Source-.Net-4-years-l... and is under the .NET Foundation rather than Microsoft https://dotnetfoundation.org/
I'd say it's only really in this last year that it's really started escaping its legacy and started really making sense as a non-microsoft stack.
inb4 "but EEE was only the 90s!"
According to the comments on the issue tracker, it was supposed to be OK because it was anonymized – but oops, there was a bug, so it wasn't totally anonymized. But it's OK because you can disable it if you happen to know about it – but oops, the disabling mechanism had a bug.
Things that are important to many free software users are not important to Microsoft. I was excited about .NET Core until I became aware of this stark misalignment of goals and priorities.