let's you subclass so easily (think: visual subclassing

Not trying to be argumentative, but when I think of the things in .NET I learned "along the way" when I had to subclass with code, I just have never seen this issue as significant.

The local cursor in Fox was certainly a very nice thing - but the enhancements to ADO.NET (and LINQ to Objects/DataSets).over the years certainly meant that .NET could hold its own in this area.