As a really long term C# engineer, I feel quite strongly that C# has become a harder and harder language over time, with a massive over abundance of different ways of doing the same thing, tons of new syntactic sugar, so 5 different devs can write five different ways of doing the same thing, even if it's a really simple thing!

At this point, even though I've been doing .net since version 2, I get confused with what null checks I should be doing and what is the new "right" and best syntax. It's kind of becoming a huge fucking mess, in my opinion anyway.

If you want a kind of proof of this, see this documentation which requires 1000s of words to try and explain how to do null/nullable: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/nullable-ref...

Do you think most C# devs really understand and follow this entire (complex and verbose) article?