Lets settle on a finally good enough. I can give honest compliments on learning from the past problems and from the better examples in the indsutry.

You may not remember the early .net core times with yeoman and other then-current javascript ecosystem originated things applied in really cumbersome, half-assed ways, with lacking docs and always being in flux for years. The project.json era was terrible.

Also msbuild was way worse 10-15 years ago...

Mono with automake was special circle of hell IMO, I have very small exposure but it was really unproductive and painful.