[mrweasel]

I don't think the platform mattered much, this happened before macOS became popular, and remember that at that time mac developers would still use Interface Builder and Objective-C. There was a certain level of pride in making Mac apps look very much like Mac apps. Very rarely did developers target both Windows and Mac.

My take is: A lot of developers didn't feel like cluing components together in Visual Basic 6 or later Visual Studio, dragging and dropping UI elements, was "real development". VB-developers where looked down on as second rate programmers. If you used VB.NET and WinForms/WebForms who where not a real developer. You had to use C# and XAML, which was absolutely terrible, but "real programming".

Same with Delphi, not something you built "real" applications in, no you use Java if you're a real developer.

Shit like that was all to common, and yet WinForms are still around and working, but XAML is dead (Edit: Apparently it's not dead).