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I change things if it’s necessary, not for the sake of using the newest version.

Now I have to update software and all its dependencies without a real benefit.

It’s equivalent of buying a new PC because MS tries to force Windows 11.

Lets waste lots of time and resources for nothing.

Just the amount of perf improvements they have added since .NET 4.8, year after year, is staggering.

Having written .NET 5+ apps, and now being back to maintaining a 4.8 app...

There's a lot of quality of life features of the later versions of C# that we're missing out on. My code was a LOT more streamlined in my .NET 9 app.