[solid_fuel]

The workflow on WPF was so much more painful than winforms, which had a decent WYSIWYG designer and solid integration with visual studio.

WPF in comparison was slow, memory hungry, and difficult to learn.

I tried 5 times to make a WPF application but it didn’t even have all the same basic controls that WinForms supported.

[Quarrelsome]

nah WPF made way more sense than WinForm in its abstract design, as it supported flow/stack layout ideas instead of anchors like WinForm did. WinForm was much quicker to get started but had a fundamental flaw in that it couldn't really do transparency.