100% agree. Not only was VC++6 a stand-out product overall, but it was easily the better IDE out of the crop of options at the time.

Sadly, the product line got worse before VSCode came out. Things are much better now.

The load times of VC6 versus VSCode... yeah. I would bet you can load a VC6 project faster in OP's environment faster than VSCode could load the same project in a current environment.