Yes, ASP.NET MVC is ASP.NET, but that neither changes, nor invalidates anything that I said.
a) Rails is an actual MVC framework.
b) ASP.NET was an over-complicated, leaky, fairly opaque abstraction for web programming.
c) It took years for MS to then come out with their own MVC framework.
You could certainly provide specific examples. How exactly is VS so much better than anything else? I've used other things that worked just as well for me. And, what is "the right direction" - MS is always moving in some direction with new APIs or frameworks.
Rails is an actual MVC framework, ASP.NET was an over-complicated, leaky, fairly opaque abstraction for web programming. And it took years for MS to then come out with their own MVC framework.
From what other people are saying, it sounds like Hetzner is the Walmart of service providers. You wouldn't see a traffic jam in the Walmart parking lot and then become indignant that they didn't have valet parking automatically start up to clear the parking lot traffic.