Based on this comment and the slnx support story it seems that msbuild.exe and dotnet.exe are the preferred tools recommended for performing restore operation on modern .NET solutions.

But everything in the Azure DevOps toolchain seems to say that the dotnetcli task should be avoided in restore operation and the nuget cli task should be preferred.

Are there any explanation about why the nuget cli task should be preferred for Azure DevOps and the nuget.exe is not prioritized for slnx restoration support?

What is the order of dependencies between nuget.exe / msbuild.exe / dotnet.exe ? I would like to choose the best supported platform for my projects, and was using nuget always when possible as the most recent and up-to-date toolchain, but I read contractional recommendations depending on the tool.