VB was mostly for IT departments to create small custom apps without having the full software engineering skill set. This was the time when software development

VB was mostly for IT departments to create small custom apps without having the full software engineering skill set. This was the time when software development started to be outsourced to the 3rd world. Most of the low level apps that were maintained in a companies IT department would have been outsourced easily. But the companies taking on these projects in the 3rd world would have used more complex development tools just to look and feel like they are doing complex work. I do not mean to suggest there are no complex software coming out from the 3rd world. But most of the outsourced projects are simple CRUD applications