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I haven't used FoxPro but I have had plenty of exposure to tech with a similar 'feel' - Excel and Word documents scripted to the gills with VBA, eventually C#, and mutating into new and kinds of horrors.

It always starts simple - you wanna build just a simple CRUD where the entry is a form that goes into the table.

Then the complexity grows, and your table has to reach out to other services, call APIs etc. etc.

The 'convenient' primitives, that did 90% of the things that need doing can't do the last 10% - so you drop down to VB, which is exactly like regular programs but worse. It also doesn't interact well with the rest of the system, so you have to rewrite adjacent stuff in VB too.