So don't get me wrong. I like Access users. Access developers, in particular, are the anti-IT department, the rebels, the people who aren't willing to wait for the sysadmins to provision them a server, and they don't have to, because they can just share an Access file on the fileserver. IT departments hate them, which is how I know they're on to something. These are the kind of people I want to help. This is the sort of thing that's the reason I do the work that I do. No kidding.
While it feels a little weird hearing that talk in relation to a Microsoft product, I agree. Building and maintaining a successful (To whatever extent you would call such a niche market a "success") product that helps people solve their own problems instead of feeding the IT priesthood would be awesome.
And then when you talk about the implementation details. My smile turns to a horrified slack jaw expression.
I'd probably feel guilty about it, and I might even try to keep it running as long as I could, but I'd eventually have as much as I could take and give up.