I needed to move on.

Borland is once again changing its focus, and there are suggestions that Delphi may not even be part of Borland for much longer (See CodeFez)
Ten years ago Delphi was fundamentally a far better environment than any of its peers. VB seemed like a toy when I had to use it occasionally. I had just given up my love of the Amiga and moved to Windows for a job. It was some comfort to be working above the horrors of Win32, MFC, GDI etc in the pure OO elegance of the VCL and clean simplicity of OO Pascal (as opposed to C). I could still thumb my nose at MS, and their technical incompetence.
It is testament to this, that Microsoft then head-hunted the main brains behind Delphi (Anders) and built a technically very similar environment (.Net). They have also bought many other industry gurus, and so times have changed. They now have the money, the marketing AND the technology.
Its now much harder to be a renegade, and if you're like me - single income household with a mortgage and baby - financial reality overrides technical ideology. I needed to move on.