* It’s damn complicated with a real learning curve to get your head around dependency injection, the vast standard library, heavy abstraction and Microsoft terminology. Day 1 basics can be easy but there’s a steep intermediate learning curve.

* ASP.Net has some nice plug and play stuff for generating Open API docs or logging for example but take a look at Laravel mentioned above and see how focused it is on making it easy to add features that the customer cares about.

* Documentation is expansive but not great, heavily focused on brand new user tutorials but terrible for quickly answering how do I do X? They struggle to stay up to date and i recall spending a good hour going down a rabbit hole because none of the tutorials were using the up do date magic spell to enable something.

* For pretty much everything you can think of there’s 3 ways to do it, good luck figuring out which one is the ‘correct’ way.

This may seem like a rant, I think ASP.Net Is good for a larger, more long term project where these annoyances are outweighed by performance and maintainability but I recently did a quick project in NextJS and the difference was night and day, despite it being my first ‘real’ project with the framework.