It's not a matter of instance or memory. In the aforementioned example it was me trying to print valid JSON from a razor view, so the capital T in "True", was causing me headaches. I wouldn't of course use "toLower" as a workaround and actually found out the best practice. However this incident made me curious regarding this behavior and triggered my little "research".
While I agree that the quality of .net is impressive, I think that it follows the overall SO problem with outdated answers.
Recently I ran into the 'why Boolean.toString returns an odd "True" value', I visited SO to find a terrific [1] but outdated [2] answer.
Nowadays I shift my teams away from SO. My piece of advice would be to stay away from it (especially junior devs), until they reach a level were they can evaluate and cross check what they are reading.
If someone believes that the earth is flat then he automatically believes that all the pilots in the world know it (and never speak about it). That is illiteracy to say the least.
You certainly don't believe everything you read, but well established knowledge from centuries ago isn't something some lunatic came up with.
So if someone dismisses gravity as a hoax, are we to support him because he is a critical thinker and start jumping off cliffs trying to fly?
Very true, but one also needs to be illiterate to believe such things. And in western countries where people get to go to school (most of them at least), it seems absurd.
So, the only thing left to assume is that they make things for popularity and/or funding.
I don't like the explanation as a set of piecewise cases
We don't like it and it's redundant. One should learn the principles and return to this article to read it as a quiz and find out whether he got it or not.
Books like the excellent Javascript Allonge (free to read on leanpub) do a great job on explaining the context. If you need more hardcore stuff, "You don't know JS" will fit you better.
(Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with any of the recommended books or their authors or leanpub or whatever.They just helped me a lot; and still do from time to time)