Exactly! The little Visual Basic I saw was always and entangled, manually tested, spaghetti code mess. Devs were productive only at the start of the project and slowed down to a crawl as things got more complex.
Devs were productive only at the start of the
project and slowed down to a crawl as things got
more complex.
Because he saw how easy productivity was at the start ("look! you just draw a button with your mouse!") and couldn't understand why it quickly became a nightmare.