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Are you sure the frameworks you've tried are actually "discontinued"? C++/CX is still supported, it's just not recommended because WinRt is standard-compliant (CX uses compiler extensions) and has some other advantages. UWP is also still supported.
Win32 is also still supported on Windows, and I cobbled together half an implementation using that (but had to do way too much work to have my app not look like Windows 95), but on all other platforms, when the platform vendor makes announcements of moving away from a technology, you don't start a new project on an old platform. So I'd rather use whatever gets attention from MS, and new features, and looks right.
Win32 is the foundational Windows OS interface on which WinRT, C++/CX, MFC, etc are all built. It's not deprecated, it's just very low-level. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_API