Kind of, Microsoft seems to trying to fix UWP, while trying to turn .NET into a cross platform runtime that has an eco-system that has been Windows only for the last 20 years.

So while they are doing lots of nice performance improvements, there are plenty of business not so happy that their 20 year investments don't run on .NET Core, and if a rewrite is needed (e.g. WCF vs gRPC) then why not just jump into something else.

Just see the lengthy roadmap, and the considerations that not everyone was happy with "AOT" (packing everything into an exe that unzips on execution).

https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/accepted/2020/fo...

Also check the repositories from Project Reunion, it is pretty much WIP right now.