Maybe this is better for command line and server stuff. The app I was building used WPF with Core 3. The regular size was 180MB if built as self contained. Trimming took off maybe 30 MB but build times were painfully long. And the initial load took around 30 secs or more on some machine.
I haven't used WPF in 10 years or so. Come to think of it, I haven't done any desktop stuff with .NET Core at all - wow, 180MB is pretty damn big!
Just took a look at my current project, which has several components: an ASP.NET web UI is 80MB, an ASP.NET API is 65MB, and backend services range from 40-55MB (these are all pretty complex, production-grade components).
