> But people don’t build desktop applications that much anymore.
This might be outside of your echo chamber, but lots of companies still very actively build desktop applications (also completely new ones) for their own line-of-business purposes.
Agree, I should have specified “for the mass market”.
Totally different inside the enterprise, one reason Borland & Embarcadero focused on it.
“Worse is better:”
It was a huge downgrade in interactive functionality at the time, but the Web has slowly built up over the past two decades so it is almost as functional.