Are there any cases when it's preferable to use a plain old Thread object instead of one of the newer constructs?

Question

I see a lot of people in blog posts and here on SO either avoiding or advising against the usage of the Thread class in recent versions of C# (and I mean of course

Answer 1

You could compare the Thread class to ADO.NET. It's not the recommended tool for getting the job done, but its not obsolete. Other tools build on top of it to ease the job.

Its not wrong to use the Thread class over other things, especially if those things don't provide a functionality that you need.