My first computer was a VIC-20, then a C64 then a C128D, etc.
I loved the look and feel of the 128D as well as the functionality.
The other day I wanted to teach my 7 year old son to program so I looked at many BASIC compilers for Windows and hated all of them, none of them had a nice GUI or even a GUI that I could make nice and they were all difficult to use. So I ran VICE and emulated the Commodore 128 just for my son to learn BASIC. There just is no BASIC environment as user friendly as BASIC 7.0 for the Commodore 128.