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Cannot start clean .Net Maui project in Visual Studio for Mac

See original GitHub issue

Description

After creating a new fresh project of .Net MAUI, I receive the following error:

Getting restore information for project X
The operation failed due to an internal error: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime, Version=7.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'. The system cannot find the file specified.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a new MAUI Project.
Wait until the packages try to restore.
Expect the error

Link to public reproduction project repository

Version with bug

7.0 (current)

Last version that worked well

6.0.312

Affected platforms

iOS, Android, Windows, macOS

Affected platform versions

iOS, Windows and Android

Did you find any workaround?

None

Relevant log output

Installed Workload Id      Manifest Version       Installation Source
---------------------------------------------------------------------
wasm-tools                 7.0.2/7.0.100          SDK 7.0.100        
macos                      13.1.1024/7.0.100      SDK 7.0.100        
maui-maccatalyst           7.0.59/7.0.100         SDK 7.0.100        
maui-ios                   7.0.59/7.0.100         SDK 7.0.100        
maui-android               7.0.59/7.0.100         SDK 7.0.100        
maui-mobile                7.0.59/7.0.100         SDK 7.0.100        
maui                       7.0.59/7.0.100         SDK 7.0.100        
tvos                       16.1.1521/7.0.100      SDK 7.0.100        
maui-desktop               7.0.59/7.0.100         SDK 7.0.100        
wasm-tools-net6            7.0.2/7.0.100          SDK 7.0.100

Visual Studio Community 2022 for Mac
Version 17.4.4 (build 12)