In 2000 using VB, you can build a GUI, make a working Windows application using a minimum amount of code. Also the documentation (msdn) and the community was really nice.
20 years on MS Access has been one of the quickest lowest code way to build a functional application. What a mess everything is these days in comparison.
If you wanted to build a data entry / collection app with basic validation, querying, filtering etc. you could easily do that with no code in 2000-era Delphi.