There are ways, but definitely can be hard to get unstuck from framework. This came across my newsfeed this am: https://www.telerik.com/blogs/jump-starting-migration-dotnet... and also, the other day, dotnet rocks podcast had a guy on talking about an upgrade tool. I think it was this one: https://visualrecode.com/ He was also discussing the "Strangler Pattern": https://akfpartners.com/growth-blog/strangler-pattern-dos-an...