while I like your point in general you might be wrong on MFC part at least a bit.

Last time I checked one can still choose optional MFC component of desktop development in vs installer and it will let you build old code with latest toolchain and do maintenance. Not that it makes any sense in 2024 but its still there.

ps. I've been hitting F5 every working day in vs for entire career and have no plans to switch to anything else =)