The reports of VBA's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

There have been spurious reports in the media saying that VBA is dead. Caused quite a firestorm around here as you might imagine -- 'cause it just plain isn't true.

There is an official statement on the VSTO blog here:

\https://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/archive/2008/01/16/the-reports-of-vba-s-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated.aspx