The VFP developers who stretched VFP with N-tier development, SQL backends, etc have a much easier time moving to other platforms.
Now that I'm working on other platforms, I'm wishing I had stretched VFP more, even tho the immediate apps I was developing didn't require it.
In the original mainframe world, which began with the Sort, Summarize, List pattern, those developers who took the trouble to learn to develop CRT-based real time mainframe applications had no trouble moving to mini's and PC's.

I agree with that...I've known Fox developers who looked at N-tier back in the late 1990's...who would go to conferences and listen and use those techniques. And then I've known Fox developers who are completely out of their league for anything other than monolithic applications.....and even when it was suggested that they start embracing decoupling and anything beyond simple object-based approaches, they'd shout (and I mean SHOUT)..."WE DON'T HAVE THE TIME FOR THAT CRAP!!!"

Yes, I wish I'd pushed VFP even further (and I pushed both VFP and Crystal pretty far). But all anyone can do is learn from what they wish they'd done, and make future adjustments....