Never thought I'd say this but the Windows developer experience from Microsoft peaked with VB6. Later tools got more powerful but never quite reached the same sweet spot of productivity and intuitiveness.

Working on a small C# WinForms app right now, and saddened that Edit-and-Continue still doesn't really work, build times are 10x what they should be, and even hit bugs in the native control wrappers.

Microsoft used to have very smart people who understood their tech stack from the ground up. I'm sure they still do, but their business decisions make it seem like instead of stripping the paint and re-priming they simply keep painting over the old mess with yet-another-layer.

(Not saying they need to break backward compatibility, but do wish they'd update old paradigms rather than abandoning them to rot).