It's not about styling, it was about how quickly one could develop a complete app by just following a few simple examples in docs. VCL + IDE literally guided you with very few things to learn. So a person uninterested in building UI but in the core of an app could build one in an afternoon, which is not possible unless somebody is an expert in web frontend development, wasting time/effort that could have been spent better elsewhere. I am glad I escaped frontend hell (I used to work on some web standard myself) and pivoted over to ML.