Yeah, I also try to follow what's new. But it's more like "Ok, that's good I guess." Rather than "Cool! Looking forward to applying this in my next project!"

I found C# exciting when it was new and adding features that were important to me, but now it feels like it has become bogged down with chunks just abandoned on the alter of backwards compatibility (Expression, anyone?) and adding features I couldn’t care less about (null safe code, pattern matching, etc).

Never was really, at least if performance matters.