Parent specifically stated that modern frontend development tools pale in comparison to VB6. You couldn't write a VB6 program and run it on Mac, Linux, a random smartphone, tablet, eReader, hell, even video game systems like the Sony PSP have had web browsers and been able to load web apps for a while now.

You throw out "the distribution argument also isn't valid" as though firing up a Linux package manager or going to download some binary program on Windows/Mac is at all comparable to simply clicking a URL in an email. Not to mention the security implications of desktop distribution.

No, the mediums are not comparable. Your rebuttals consist of "your argument isn't valid" but offer no counterpoints, rather, they simply describe the way desktop development is done these days. It's fine and dandy that you think desktop programming is the state of the art, but there are vast differences between web and desktop environments, and it's why things like the Chromebook can exist.

There are many people these days for whom the internet is the computer.