I wrote C# non-professionally long ago and loved it.

I recently tried to come back and the problem isn't the language. It's getting into it. Try to click "new project" and you're met with dozens of templates, and a lot of them sound identical to the untrained observer. Which web project should you start with? Which GUI project?

I pushed through it and made the wrong choice a few times for each of those. Apparently there are stable old one, and rapidly changing and underdeveloped new ones, and no way to tell them apart other than knowing the magic incantation.

Microsoft would do themselves a major favor if they cleaned that up and made things clearer, including definite guidance on why you should pick one template over another.

Instead, they treat them all as if they're perfect and newcomers have to just guess.

And no, web research doesn't help. There are tons of people who love each of them, and only a few people willing to write well-reasoned articles based on their experience, helping someone pick the best ones to start with.