I smelled smoke 4 years ago and promptly evacuated (to rails). Rob Conery was always my favorite asp.net open source dev, I hope he's able to teach the Microsoft community what exactly they are missing.
I did suggest to Sara Ford at a MixUK conf a couple of years ago that a Visual Studio plugin that would search for and import projects from CodePlex straight into your project would be pretty awesome; I never followed up on it, and I've been out of Windows dev since then so I haven't heard if anything similar exists. I still think it would rock :-)
Cucumber isn't strictly speaking out of the box - it's dead easy to install of course, but it's not part of the rails core distribution. Rails still uses Test::Unit by default.
Specflow (http://www.specflow.org/) is a .Net oriented BDD framework that uses Gherkin - essentially Cucumber for .Net.
If you want to make consistent good money it's in consulting for firms, and that's going to be almost exclusively C# and Java.
The way I've viewed it is WebForms is what you learn when you're starting out, and when you want more advanced features that are built for websites people actually use, you use something more sane, like MVC.
In my experience, "vanilla" Asp.NET (with WebForms) makes a ton of assumptions on how it should be styled, based on...I'm not really sure. The Visual Studio project team's intranet or something. MVC is slightly better with CSS adapters and the like, and provides a more robust routing mechanism that we've used on a few sites.
Why is this a debate, other than being more platform religion?
It's not a debate. The point is to ask Microsoft to stop being afraid.
If you don't want to - that's great but you're comments have no context.
I guessed that the post supported the video, but lacking a video, commented on the post instead.