I miss it too. For me, the replacement is Web. It lacks VB's all-in-one-ness, and it lacks the GUI designer, but other than that, I can get a pretty close approximation of GUI toolkit with events binding.

I don't use almost any frameworks or toolkits, save for a cryptography module, and I am quite happy and getting a similar experience.

Bonus is if I keep it to 2010-ish era DOM-style code, I virtually never have to worry about cross-browser compatibility issues.

It pays to stay off the bleeding edge.

Gambas. Some related links at:

https://github.com/wekan/hx/tree/main/prototypes/ui/gambas

I feel like VB6 was definitely a peak of the integration of beginning and advanced. I wonder if there's anything like it but for HTML, CSS, JS. The style of VB coding is basically frontend webdev today.

Retool is the closest thing I've seen to capturing the magic of early Visual Basic.

Does AutoIt count?

https://github.com/EsportToys/MouseTray

The language is obviously different, but if you miss the "get the GUI done" feature then Lazarus fits the bill.

PureBasic or DarkBasic? Or just use VB6 and a paper bag over your head.

Depends on what you miss. Lazarus might be an alternative?