I get where people are coming from, but I honestly don't think it's that hard. If someone is new to .NET, all they need to care about is .NET 6 and later, so it doesn't matter much.

Microsoft has documentation for the history. Here's one: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/introduction#ne...

I think everyone is honestly too harsh on Microsoft. They are the best at evolving software (not perfect) while keeping backwards compatibility. Apple and Google just throw things away or suddenly change things and say "deal with it". Of course it's easy to keep naming simple when you do that. There's no way Oracle, Apple, Google, etc. could have managed the transition from .NET Framework to .NET 6 like Microsoft has. Apple would have just changed to something completely different and thus named it something new, just like they did with Swift.