Developing UIs with toolkits like Delphi's VCL was much faster than web development - as long as your UI was form-oriented and you had a pre-made, configurable

Developing UIs with toolkits like Delphi's VCL was much faster than web development - as long as your UI was form-oriented and you had a pre-made, configurable control for everything you wanted to add. But as soon as you get down to needing to do your own drawing, a complexity cliff rises up. The web is the other way around. With sufficient styling you can get a UI which matches your vision without having to write a lot of imperative code, but if you want to put a simple application together quickly, there's a real risk of analysis paralysis owing to how much control you have.