The biggest problem is that it's just impossible to use modern coding tools with them. If we could fix that, so much would work better. Even the best efforts at

The biggest problem is that it's just impossible to use modern coding tools with them. If we could fix that, so much would work better. Even the best efforts at it haven't really worked out, since there are some truly sprawling VBA codebases out there (tried Rubberduck with a big MS Access app for a business - reliably crashed it).