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Welcome to corporate-owned open-source. You COULD fork .NET and add hot-reload back in. But you won't. And they know it.

Well, try to squeeze something into Linux without Linus approval. Every project has a ultimate authority somehow.

But you are completely right. Especially with the last sentence.

I wonder how hard to diff the feature back in.

It's, apparently, a couple thousands lines. It could, perhaps, even be made into its own separate tool. Haven't looked at it myself, though.