I couldn't agree more, although I wouldn't be quite so hard on the language. It did have some strong points (for example, it was awesome for integrating with MS Office). To this day the GUI builder was the best I've seen. The current Mac stuff is more powerful, maybe, but the VB builder was way more intuitive and discoverable.

Back in those days, I (and many others) would use VB just to build the GUIs for C or C++ programs. It was that good.