You could make the same argument about Visual Basic 6 vs VB.NET Why was VB.Net & .Net needed at all? Why didn't Microsoft just continue development on Visual B

You could make the same argument about Visual Basic 6 vs VB.NET Why was VB.Net & .Net needed at all? Why didn't Microsoft just continue development on Visual Basic 7 & incorporate some of the VB.Net features into it? Personally I'd still prefer to be on .NET Core than on some hypothetical Visual Basic version 16, with a ton of compromises made for some slowly changing Frankenstein language of various backward compatibility hacks built in