It seems that the Hot Reload will not work with Maui if all the checks on the Xaml Hot Reload tab of Debugging are not clicked on. Setting them all on and Hot Reload is now recognizing changes to the Xaml.
Hot reload gets worse
In trying to get rid of the APP not responding problem with the Android emulator, after about 100 things to try (rebooting after every execution works but is .....) I then disabled Hot Reload. That like all the previous tries did not work. And then it gets better. I re-enabled hot reload and if it wasn't such a useless thing I would laugh because now it says "no changes found" after I make a change.
I've read many posts about this but they all just say to close VS and restart. That changed nothing. Part of me says Hot reload doesn't do much most of the time but for those times it works this is another one of VS's growing list of things that just don't work.
Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 (64-bit) - Current
Version 17.8.3