I have this idea, that since they went open source, but failed to gain the adoption on UNIX shops they were expecting, there are tons of features to try to make it cool again somehow.

The reality, and I can see this on my bubble, is that the .NET shops are mostly former Microsoft shops now saving Windows licenses by deploying on Linux.

Stuff like MAUI remains pretty much constrained to former Xamarin customers.

Thus minimal APIs, aspire, Blazor, and whatever comes up to support those use cases first.

There are some podcast interviews from David Fowler and Maddy Montaquila where they touch the adoption issue among newer generations.