Agreed. VB wasn't perfect for ~everything~ but it was Rapid Application Development at its best. The massive simplification of otherwise gangly code with all of it's built in functions is what made it so friggin' popular. VB6 was the most used programming language on the planet when MS pulled the plug and VB.NET was in the top 3 when MS just started drifting away from supporting it. Amazing how you can have a product so popular and just chuck it...twice. Dumping the language like that is what makes me not trust investing time learning and collecting code for anything proprietary to MS. No customer loyalty.

Thumb drives are cheaper. And re-usable. Also...if you have a functioning copy of Win10 already running and you just want a reload....Win10 has that built in. Just search for "reset" and it even has an option to download and install from the internet and it will grab the latest and greatest. De-crappifying comes from choosing the "keep nothing" option.