Designing something with an intent is very different than succeeding in it.

Also, absolutely objectively Microsoft has orders of magnitude more control over C# than Oracle has over Java. Both Java, the language and the JVM has a specification, implemented completely independently by several companies, and the reference implementation is used as a business critical infrastructure of almost all Fortune 500 companies, many of which could single handedly continue to support and develop the platform. Meanwhile C# doesn’t have an open-source debugger..