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> I would be impressed with a tool to quickly design a web application in the same way Visual Basic did 25 years ago instead of talking about Bootstrap, Foundation, AngularJS, React, etc.

It's called ASP.NET Web Forms. Version 1 was released in 2002. Demos of it back then were quite impressive.

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I tried it circa 2007 with Sharepoint and it was a pain in the * to use the web components/AJAX. It was the first time I used Sharepoint for development so take it with a grain of salt.

Could you please point me to some modern demo?

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