As one person referenced in the article said
" ..... I still have to interact with a VERY large VB6 code base on a semi-regular basis.”
This also applies to me and I'm sure, many others. I have the VB6 development environment installed and running under Windows 10 and 11 and it works perfectly. All the VB6 applications that I still update and maintain, work flawlessly on ALL Windows Desktop and Server platforms - and I just recently installed a few on Ubuntu Linux with WINE without any issues. So VB6 is very much alive and kicking