Never underestimate the legacy. I've resolved not to start another C++ project, but I'm learning MFC at the moment for working on a codebase that's 35 years old and was rewritten into C++ at some point in the 90s.
I'm finding it not too bad; the style is somewhere between 'C with classes' and EnterpriseJavaReallyLongNames, and aggressive testing has kept it working over the years. MFC itself is pretty intuitive and I like the window message system.
