3 months is not enough to make that conclusion. I'd be a little surprised if anyone who has built applications with both tools would disagree.I pass your test of competence, but I'm not qualified to agree or disagree without assessing his project. Nor are you.
FWIW, the work I'm doing at the moment would be almost impossible in dotNET. It took less than 3 months to reach that conclusion. ;-) Meanwhile Gary Wynne has a dotNET project that would be ridiculous in VFP. So what. that's not proof, it's just anecdote.
But let's make a distinction between the learning curve of a technology, and the capabilities of the technology itself.A Ferrari is very capable, but few of us drive one- because we can't justify the cost. Only a fanatic or a millionaire can afford to ignore cost. A learning curve is a cost. The OP decided he didn't want to pay it in 2006. There is nothing inconsistent or unreasonable about that.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
