They've managed the transition well on the technical side of things - as you can see there are plenty of people who are happy with the end result. But it's clear from comments that pop up here that they've really missed the mark when it comes to actually describing the intent behind the whole project, because a surprising number regard it as just an unnecessary exercise in rebranding.
Try to build desktop app in Ruby or in Python, no one cares about desktop apps. If you want to build native desktop apps you go with QT or something C++ based.
.NET branding being confusing is a theoretical problem. When you work day to day with the code you don't care and it does not affect anything I work on. It is not like it somehow affects compilation or some of my code stops working. I use .NET 4.8, .NET standard and .NET Core and now .NET 6 in projects and no problems there.
I take it you never used Photoshop, 3D Max, Autocad, Word, Excel, Visual Studio, Paint or Notepad.
Check out web.autocad.com
There are more and more painting tools available online.
Cloud based IDEs are popping up more frequently.
Not to forget about all web based note apps.
That is the trend and no one cares about creating next Photoshop or Autocad competition on desktop.
Let alone that I mentioned that if someone cares about building desktop app he goes with C++ and QT or something like that and not .NET or Ruby or Python.
We have no more CORE, just .NET.
>And the questions around the GUI toolkits don't help. WinForms is the only thing that is (still) consistently developed - kind of.
MAUI is going to be released soon.