We're a .NET dev company (all C# coders, but most of us have a background in VB as well), I asked my team if they had to choose would they rather have to develo

We're a .NET dev company (all C# coders, but most of us have a background in VB as well), I asked my team if they had to choose would they rather have to develop with: A: C#, but with WebForms (including using code behind and the built in web controls where possible). or B: VB, but with MVC and WebApi. They all chose C# WebForms even though they all hate WebForms, just not as much as they hate VB. Personally I love VB and WebForms, I never get to do work with it nowadays (I'm not even sure we have any legacy systems that still run it), but I built my company from scratch off that stack and coming from a classic ASP background I was blown away with controls like GridView and Repeaters etc. I remember our first designer being so confused with the mess of html outputted by these controls and the hatred our purists had for viewstate that polluted their lightweight designs. I still remember how excited I was when I first used the AjaxControlToolkit and the UpdatePanel control, it was like magic! Now everything's pretty much all C#, RazorPages, WebApi, Angular or Vue and I'd never go back, but I do miss the old days. It's not often I see tech that seems magical any more, SignalR was probably the last big thing that blew me away in terms of just doing something that felt so different, but it's really rare now. I would add that we just finished a prototype app for a client using Blazor WASM and coding that did seem like witchcraft and certainly brought back some of the old feelings of being amazed, maybe we'll all look back on javascript frameworks in the same way we look back on VB in a couple of years if Blazor play outs.