I have personally seen well meaning older devs saying that building on Microsoft Access with VBA is absolutely a viable greenfield stack in 2026 for small business.

And we wonder why ageism exists in our industry. Not saying that’s fair or all of it by any stretch, but ouch. It goes to show many of these worst practices are alive, well, and employable.

This is a reasonable idea if the users maintaining the system aren't technical AT ALL. Think small business who wants a homebrew inventory system for some reason. There is almost always a better tool, but Access is still very approachable for non technical users

If you can spin up a working prototype with Microsoft Access and VBA then you can get investors and others to help build your market release.

I'm _not staying you should_, but if it works and makes money, it may not be that dumb.