I am more radical, .NET should never have happened, rather the original Ext-VOS idea with COM instead of trying to build on top of Java ideas.

VB6 was AOT compiled and used COM as its component model, C# should have been similar but for C++ folks, basically what .NET Native came to be.

However they really botched UWP execution, when it could have been the proper .NET reboot back to Ext-VOS roots.