Ncurses has its place, if you're doing a full featured form based app it helps a lot.

That being said, if you're doing something less involved, controlling the terminal via ansi escape sequences is not rocket surgery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

https://github.com/codr7/sharpl/blob/main/src/Sharpl/Term.cs

https://github.com/codr7/sharpl/tree/main/examples/fire