Doh, you're absolutely correct. I started with .NET back in 2003, so there's still quite a bit of baggage mixed in with the .NET team's terrible naming history.

I would personally recommend .NET for backend work, as MS track record of UI frameworks is rather suspect. For the main project I currently support, using .NET 6 API and a React frontend (+EF Core to access a Postgres database). Works beautifully.