A perspective from a non-CS engineer.

Don't intend to undermine the progress being made. Nevertheless here I am, migrating my dot net core 3.0 application back to Dot Net Framework 4.5.1 because I need my applications to run in all those Windows 8.1 (enterprise-internal) PCs without needing admin privileges to install dot net runtime. Since 4.5.1 runtime comes pre-installed with Win 8.1. So that is the version I target for all my new inhouse civil-engineering applications. There isn't much point bloating the application by 80+ MB just to make it self contained executable of dot net core version. After all, I need civil engineering to speedup, not fighting latest framework versions.