Not sure how much you are joking, but all the "apps were better in the 90s" blog posts overlook the absurd flexibility web apps have gained over the years.

VB and its ilk were used to write apps that were used in a very specific way. Many times companies wrote apps not just their business use cases, but literally with the expectation of the hardware their users had in the office, the network they were on and who would be maintaining the machines. Ultra rigid user experiences, but still somehow were bug prone.

Today its like, oh yeah, a user had an issue, they were searching our million record database on their smart toaster, one of the table columns weren't aligned correctly and it was slow to load.