I would agree with your last sentence, that's a very Microsoft way to handle things: "Hey, look at all of this! You can implement your application USING YOUR FAVORITE TOOLS! Isn't that great that we give you the opportunity to evaluate 36 different framework to see which one is THE BEST for your UNIQUE situation?!".
It's a complete mess and the whole thing feels direction-less but I cannot agree that no good tool exist to implement GUI.
I'm still confused by their React Native for Windows. Very happy to see development in this area, React Native is a fantastic framework, but I cannot understand if it is a toy or something they actually want to commit too. Blazor Desktop is also really confusing and makes no sense IMHO.
Blazor Desktop makes a lot of sense to me. Basically: Blazor Server is getting pretty good and itβs easy to serve it up to a local webview so why not make that an officially supported use case?
Yes, I want to believe in MAUI but the current state and dev process are very concerning. I don't get a good feeling that theres a clear understanding of how Xamarin "failed" (which it had to at some level for it to be replaced) in order to avoid the same issues. I'm also really concerned how soon the cutover is supposed to be (with only 1 year of Xamarin support after) and the current state of MAUI.
It feels like desktop teams are running into all possible solutions to see what sticks, instead of fixing what we had.