There's definitely room for a book or blog series along the lines of "F# for python programmers" or something.

Unfortunately there's some level of .NET tooling you need to understand before you can do much today, and several .NET concepts creep in with that.

The good news is that .NET Interactive is shaping up to be a great way to avoid most of that. At least so far all you need to do is install the .NET SDK, then install a VSCode plugin and you're good to go - just write code like you would in a python notebook, and acquiring packages is even easier than in Python: https://github.com/dotnet/interactive#notebooks-with-net