When I imagine starting to learn C# right now, I think I would need to:

- install the newest Visual Studio with default config

- create a new console app project

- start writing code in the template's main function

Granted, I have to know whether I want to create the console app in .Net Core 3.1 or .Net 5 or whatever, but I imagine I can find the answer to that pretty quickly and move on. Usually the answer will be "the newest version you have installed".

Any language feature I want to play with is just one automatic import tip away, and most of the features I would explore as a total novice don't even need that.

The complexity of various Nuget packages, ASP.Net versions, older versions of .Net only arrives once you need to uplift older projects, maintain libraries to be used across different framework versions etc. Those are tasks for a more experienced developer, for a good reason, and I believe this is true for any technology stack.

EDIT: formatting