I&#x27;ve heard the same thing about the Afx macros and the plan for another more ambitious framework.<p>In my opinion the biggest obstacles for MFC were:
* a pretty bad C++ compiler (the first good MS C++ compiler was the one with Visual Studio 2003 as much as i remember)
* that the core group were &quot;old school&quot; C guys that either couldn&#x27;t design a better object oriented system or thought that it would be to hard for the &quot;normal&quot; developers