The quality was generally crap. The code near unmaintainable. It usually wasn't written by experienced programmers. But it got the job done. I actually felt the push away from VB6 was not a customer based decision but one that came about to personal taste of various people working at MS. VB6 was left behind much to the dismay of everyone who built some bespoke business flow using it.

Fwiw though i wouldn't want anyone to try to recreate VB6 or any low/no code style environment at this point. That ships sailed and i'm seeing non-programmers do much more impressive automations with agents at this point.

> The quality was generally crap. The code near unmaintainable. It usually wasn't written by experienced programmers.

This has nothing to do with the language.

> any low/no code style environment

Did we use the same VB6? Are you referring to the optional GUI creation tool? QT has a similar designer. There are bunches of form designers out there on the MS side.