A lot of people’s opinions about dotnet are not informed by anything, they see Microsoft in the name and decide to drop snide remarks about how bad it must be, as you can see already from this thread.

It's not as if that reputation came about out of thin air. Developers have memory and are not quick to forgive or forget.

.NET Core is 6 years old now. That is 3 ice ages ago in our business. This memory should be defragmented and then updated ;)

I think that claims about a thing should be based on observations concerning that thing, and not based on a folk memory acquired through other people’s attitudes and biases.

That's because they get rewarded on Hacker News for saying that -- with Points!