> those opinions most sense for VAST majority of their users

I have a much more nuanced view.

I think that ASP.Net is the de facto standard for being backed by Microsoft since many years. From the gold time when ASP means IIS to now when Kestrel was cannibalized by Microsoft.

As a developer, working with the most widely used stack guarantees that these choices won’t be questioned in critical situations. I’m not saying Kestrel is bad, but it doesn’t automatically fit every scenario.

- 15 years ago, there were Apache or IIS.

- Then nginx changes the game and kicks their ass

- Then webserver starts being written into script langage for better integration (Ruby, Python), no more CGI and nginx as reverse

- Then node changes the game

- Now : caddy and other alternatives... but still not web server in PHP (troll inside)

I see a pattern to not believe aspnetcore is the only one and the best.