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ReturnHttpNotAcceptable=true Does Not Return ProblemDetails

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affected-very-few area-mvc enhancement feature-mvc-execution-pipeline severity-minor
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Description

### Describe the bug
Setting `MvcOptions.ReturnHttpNotAcceptable` to `true` returns a 406 Not Acceptable status code but the body of the response is empty instead of containing a `ProblemDetails` object.

### To Reproduce

1. `dotnet new webapi`
2. Add this code to `Startup.ConfigureServices`:

```c#
services.AddMvcOptions(x => x.ReturnHttpNotAcceptable = true);
```
3. Run `curl -i -H "Accept: text/plain" http://localhost:5000/weatherforecast` and note that there is no response body.

### Further technical details
- ASP.NET Core version: 3.0.100
- Include the output of `dotnet --info`

```
.NET Core SDK (reflecting any global.json):
Version: 3.0.100
Commit: 04339c3a26

Runtime Environment:
OS Name: Windows
OS Version: 10.0.19013
OS Platform: Windows
RID: win10-x64
Base Path: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\3.0.100\

Host (useful for support):
Version: 3.0.0
Commit: 7d57652f33

.NET Core SDKs installed:
2.1.202 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
2.1.505 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
2.1.801 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
2.1.802 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
2.2.401 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
2.2.402 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
3.0.100 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET Core runtimes installed:
Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.1.9 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.1.12 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.1.13 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.2.6 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.2.7 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.9 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.12 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.13 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.2.6 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.2.7 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.0.9 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.9 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.12 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.13 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.2.6 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.2.7 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]
```

- The IDE (VS / VS Code/ VS4Mac) you're running on, and it's version

Visual Studio 2019 16.4.0

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