Just today I was talking to a team lead here about abstracting away from a truly terribly proprietary template language for a CMS. His first thought was "that'

Just today I was talking to a team lead here about abstracting away from a truly terribly proprietary template language for a CMS. His first thought was "that's a good idea, but we'd have to make sure it would be easy to move that code to a different CMS in the future." There's just no way to make that happen, so the idea probably won't get off the ground because management wants things future-proof. I see where they are coming from, but it means everybody suffers instead of just enjoying improvements in the present.