But people say this about technology in software engineering time and time again.

VB? VBA macros in Excel? Delphi? Uhh... Wordpress? Python as a language?

Well you see these are just for prototypes. These are just for making an MVP. They're not the real product.

But they are the real product. I've almost never seen these been successfully used as just for prototyping or MVPs. It always becomes the real codebase and it's a hot fucking mess 99% of the time.