I am still using MSVC6.0 and loving it... There was a clear drop in quality when MS switched to the "modern" VS.

It seems most people here look at a short period of history: they take some crappy software, like modern VS or Office and point that it improved from the initial very crappy version to a less crappy one. Hurray, progress!

What they don't take into account is how much crappier the whole "modern" range of product versions is compared to the original.