Ask HN: Why is .NET never talked about as an option for solo/small team dev?

Is there still a lot of stigma around it? Any downsides to using it for solo projects? Whenever we're discussing tech stacks, whether it's here or on X or on Reddit, the most commonly mentioned frameworks are Next.js/Remix/SvelteKit (for those who really like JS/TS) and Rails/Laravel/Django (for those who want "batteries included" and don't want JS in the backend). Occasionally, it's HTMX+Go (for those who don't like "magic" and also don't like JS). But .NET rarely, if ever, comes up, let alone any Java-based solutions like Spring Boot or Dropwizard. Are these tools particularly bad for non-enterprise projects? From what I've seen, they appear to be nearly identical in most ways that matter. Just like Rails et. al, .NET is "batteries included", cross-platform, MVC-based, favors "convention over configuration", has what appears to be a Turbo equivalent in Blazor, and has decent documentat