I went to use a visual studio extension today that helped upgrade older versions to newer ones, it was free, worked offline, and did a great job of converting projects while providing a helpful report of what was changed and other notes about the process. A recent update to visual studio has completely disabled this functionality and added a "Modernize" option that only works with a paid Copilot subscription. Terrible enshittification of a product, but while reading about a possible workaround, I found a nuclear take with one of the worst analogies I've ever seen anyone try to make:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Error-Message-when-loading-VS-20206-afte/10971375#T-N10974933

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