>Thanks...don't applaud, just throw money
Put it in a book, I am addicted to book buying!

>Isn't this at least a little scary? It's sitting there right out in front of everybody. We just have to see past our own internal biases about what's hard and easy.

What's scary is how this won't make any difference to most people. There are always those who try to keep an open mind, and those that cling to the past. But change is inevitable, the trick is to keep what's good from what has gone, and embrace what's good in what is coming--and it seems to me that this is (with varying degrees of bias, civility, clarity, and commentary) what everyone who has been advocating checking out VB, n-tier, Web technologies (fill in your non-traditional FP item here) is trying to say.

And my addition to this argument would be the pragmatist view: It doesn't really matter whether someone thinks its technically, or even rationally superior, change is gonna happen, so you should try to do as well as you can.

The ones who succeed are the ones who can see that there are some really cool and useful things mixed in with the stuff they don't necessarily want, or need.

I say, use what you can, ignore what you want, and go with the flow.