> There was a rich ecosystem of third-party controls. So does HTML/CSS/JS, and they'll also often be adapted to the various popular front end frameworks of the

> There was a rich ecosystem of third-party controls. So does HTML/CSS/JS, and they'll also often be adapted to the various popular front end frameworks of the day - Angular, React, Vue currently. I also find it easier to customize and compose 3rd party UI components on the web than I did back in the 90's with VB, Delphi, MFC, COM, etc.