Why did microsoft abandon VB6?
It was too good to be true...

In the religious world of geeks, programming should force human to adopt to "thinking like a computer", and being cryptic, esoteric, out of reach of common people.

VB has changed that. It is a human-intuitive language, accessible to everyone. A blasphemy.

This is why geeks hate VB so much and call it the worst language ever.

As for python, it is a script, like vbs, not even a real language with built-in UI, IDE, debugger, compiler and such.