They say great science is built on the shoulders of giants. Not here. At Aperture, we do all our science from scratch. No hand holding. - Cave Johnson

Removing project.json was explained by the sheer size of refactoring every other projects to unify in one model. It was a justified explanation.

After reading that the .NET team is removing grunt/gulp from the project templates, I’m left to wonder what is the motivation behind it. Apparently, some users had issues with it and it had to be pulled. No more details were given.

In fact, they are pulling back the old bundler/minifier into the fray to keep the bundling/minifying feature.

All this so we can do dotnet bundle without requiring other tools. Everything will be unified once more. No need for external tooling or node. Everything will be Microsoft tools.

Now to explain to my client why we are using node to automate our workflow since Microsoft definitely won’t be including it in its templates. It really makes you think twice about offering directions to clients.