I never considered it a democracy. It’s one-party system with two parties, what can be democratic about it? Smoke and mirrors.

same people would argue static typing is better then dynamic typing

I mean… It depends. But in my work (buy side finance) - duh.

People who has been maintaining the kernel and weathered multiple fads are wary to see if new guards will “stick”, or just stay along for a year or five, disappear and leave the old guard with shit.

The heck you’re talking about? There’s a ton of free resources to learn the basics.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/csharp official Microsoft learning resources.

https://dotnettutorials.net/course/csharp-dot-net-tutorials/ for C# basics and .NET framework (which is backend standard).

For game engines you need specific tutorials in those engines.