As much as I hate to say it, it certainly feels like Khalid has nailed it here (raise MAUI issue, backlogged, raise MAUI issue, backlogged, raise MAUI issue, backlogged).

I just created a couple of new MAUI libraries for the first time in a while, and when I've gone to link to them I've discovered neither has the shared folder there (I don't know if we still call them that in MAUI - that's what they were called in Xamarin). The 4 platform folders are there, but not the 5th one (screenshot from a different library, with all 5 folders there). I even deleted one and started again from scratch to be sure, and sure enough it was missing again. Does anyone know what is going on here? Is this a bug, or do I now link to dll's in a different folder? (I'm looking in bin\Release) This is using the current standard MAUI library template in VS.

I had this line randomly appear in my csproj git changes...

I didn't put it there myself, unless by accidentally clicking something. Maybe it got put there automatically (like when you update nuget and it automatically updates the csproj)?

I don't use XAML, nor hot reload, nor did I add any extensions, so I'm not sure why it appeared. I Googled for it and couldn't really find anything about it. I don't know if it's safe to just delete it or if it needs to be there now?