We never quite lost it, just the startup SV culture lost sight of them,
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/
Or in the game industry,
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.2/en-US/blueprints-visual-sc...
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/
Or in the game industry,
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.2/en-US/blueprints-visual-sc...
.Net no they lost because .NET ios not as easy as VB6 - VB6 is more like a GUI shell language linking controls together. Easy to quickly do something but if you need more detail then not a good language you have to write the controls and that requires another language. .Net threw that ease away, if you are at the level of wanting to alter controls then yes it is better but I think having the two languages was better for enterprises. However nowadays the replacement for VB6 is web programming.
There are others like Xojo
.NET Forms is definitly as easy as VB6, even more so, because C++ was out of the picture.
VB required delving into VBX (C++), and even VB6 OCX doesn't support everything in COM, meaning some kind of controls also required diving into C++ for VB 6.