It has been my sad experience that the vast majority of VFP "programmers" lack even the most rudimentary of competent programming skills.

Most of us who particulate in this forum have been enriched by coming into contact with a group of unusually competent people whose online behavior makes it easy to leverage skills and do well- so much so that other development "communities" have modeled themselves on this one. You've been a member since 2004: how did you manage to miss out on all that?

Perhaps that is the reason so many are fighting so hard against learning new tools.

I think that the least competent VFP developers are long gone. Unable to perceive any advantages in VFP, they followed the herd and are demonstrating their capability in some new tool. Those who remain presumably consider that they have good reasons to do so. It would be catty to imply that they are simply opposed to learning and I'm sure that's not your intention.