Please don't.
I already have a really hard time communicating reason to m$ people. They get these ridiculous ideas from the likes of you, and waste countless hours beating a dead horse.
There will be no servers to configure in the future. We will be spinning up containers in a swarm, and communicating with those services via de-centralized lambda function pools. Bulk of future devs will spring up in frontend. m$ lost its monopoly in backend to AWS and the likes. Do you think they started OSS because they are nice? They are desperate and throwing money at the problem.
> jQuery on the front or use Knockout JS if you want to do data-binding with MVVM
I'll say the same thing to someone who tried to make a case for PHP; you are doing a disservice to the clueless reader (likely a new grad). Kids, listen to me; don't ever say that in a job interview. You'll be politely rejected, and never hear from them again.
If you started to use jQuery after 2016, just keep that to yourself. It shouldn't matter that much, but it does. It signals you are comfortable with being mediocre.
> waste more time on JS than you need to
Again; just don't. Just because your past 10 years of acting "1337 programmer" through drag-n-drop some VC (nuget?) modules vanished doesn't mean future programmers need to go through that soul crushing m$ travesty.
What is the UNIX philosophy? What is m$ (still) trying to do? Do you think those guys don't know how to pick successful ventures? Think. You are up against a company here, not a friendly group of developers.
Not that you can really resist the change, mind you. I'm not asking you to stop peddling your inferior wares because I'm afraid you might stop progress. I'm suggesting it because you will be left holding the bag when m$ finally starts chopping bits off the MSDN network, and Oracle silently discontinues Java after v9.
Try to advance, not defend your crumbling castle.
p.s. Had to create a new account just to reply to this. Hadn't logged in in a couple years.