I still use them - IE9 being the highest available engine is just as bad as you remember, but being able to quickly whip up a few-hundred KB app HR can all use

I still use them - IE9 being the highest available engine is just as bad as you remember, but being able to quickly whip up a few-hundred KB app HR can all use off a network drive to automate tedious tasks like recurring data-driven document generation, with a decent React UI, is worth some of the pain.