Beyond Fire-and-Forget: Why .NET Developers Keep Rebuilding Workflow Engines

Hangfire excels at simple, fire-and-forget background jobs, but complex workflows involving conditional logic, delays, retries, and state management expose critical gaps that force developers to reinvent the same infrastructure repeatedly. This pattern reveals a fundamental mismatch between what developers need for real-world processes and what general-purpose job queues provide, signaling demand for purpose-built workflow orchestration tools.