Counterargument: Projects built in the 80s/90s that are still alive today are the 0.001% of projects that have survived for a myriad of reasons, not necessarily

Counterargument: Projects built in the 80s/90s that are still alive today are the 0.001% of projects that have survived for a myriad of reasons, not necessarily code quality or programmer ability Given the time period there has been ample time for a large number of highly skilled people to contribute high quality code, increasing the overall project quality and stability. I would hazard a guess the early beta versions of Apache, MySQL etc. were far from the quality and stability we see today