I've always been baffled by that claim. We are SO used to so many programs taking seconds to load. I don't know of a game that loads instantly...well, I guess I do, since things like solitaire can load instantly, but most things aren't that fast. SQL Server Management Studio is even slower, Access isn't all that fast, Excel isn't all that fast. So, why is it so essential that VB6 load instantly? It feels like grasping for benefits of what is clearly an ancient IDE.

It certainly shouldn't apply to switching between multiple instances of the IDE, anyways. The cost is in loading, not in switching, and if you have enough RAM, switching should be instantaneous. Also, if you have enough RAM, loading the second instance will be FAR faster than loading the first. And, even with that, the loading time is a few seconds. Even on my (slower) work computer, VS2017 is probably less than 10 seconds (unless our intrusive security scan has decided to take over the computer, in which case EVERYTHING is slow). Even if that happened every time, do you really open and close the IDE over and over and over? I tend to open one or more and leave them open for hours. Spending 10 seconds once a day isn't even enough time to go get a mug of water.

It just feels like you're saying, "well, we don't have this, we don't have that....but we load FAST!! Great, THAT's what we'll talk about!" Who the heck cares these days?