From the general feedback I've gotten & my own experience, the summary is -- people hate bad PowerBuilder apps. In the same way they'd hate bad apps written in

From the general feedback I've gotten & my own experience, the summary is -- people hate bad PowerBuilder apps. In the same way they'd hate bad apps written in any other framework. PowerBuilder's honest biggest problem is that it was likely used by internal and consultant teams looking to quickly deliver value, sometimes to the detriment of solid architecture decisions. And that the resulting applications have been useful enough that people are still running them (without updates) a couple decades later.