Sadly Delphi became debt at the same time Win32 did. Win32 "works" in the modern era only as long as you restrict yourself to opening a blank window and putting a D3D surface in it. Very few apps use it beyond the absolutely minimum level required anymore, because it's just a giant pile of horrendous tech debt. It's so tech debty that Microsoft have tried numerous times to kill it completely; their failure to pay off their debts doesn't make it non-debt however. How many new apps are using comctl32 widgets and WinINet these days? They all ignore it as much as possible and rely heavily on fat wrappers or shipping reimplementations for the rest. I mean that was like 50% of the value of Delphi as a product - it wrapped Win32 in an API layer that made it actually digestable.