There's also the side effect that, just like with Libreoffice, they will be integrated into future harnesses for AI by anthropic and openai and others so that their platforms will be able to run these programs locally and spit out the results.
In all honesty - COM+ is a very smart thing, sadly not everyone understood it, and most new software packages are cloud-native before all else and dont' have it. Using the integrated (internal) scripting layers is not always so easy. But what does even 'easy' mean in 2026 automated coding. It was hard 5 years ago and 9 years ago when I last did such automations, nowadays this all has a very different perspective.
And let me remind you - there are dozens of "background removal" websites, and many of them are profitable. So you can imagine the level of comprehension for technology the general population has (at this moment, perhaps will advance rapidly also).