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>I agree. It's like when MS tell everyone just to "upgrade to dotnet 6" or 7 or whatever!

The amount of global manhours MS is throwing down the drain by constantly ending support for their versions must be absolutely staggering. Updates are often far from trivial, and they expect everyone to keep up with their fast upgrades and tiny support windows? Long term support is only 3 years, are you kidding me?

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> Updates are often far from trivial

No, they are actually trivial starting from 3.1/5/6 exactly because of the work they have put in.

That's great for those already there. For those of us still partially stuck on .Net Framework it is anything but trivial.

And sure, upgrading from .Net 5 to 6 was trivial, but do you really anticipate it will now finally remain stable for eternity? Give it two or three minor versions and they'll have come up with something else to break 90% of your dependencies.

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