> Stories of folks who gradually build ownership over the creaky "legacy" codebase and polish it up with Sisyphean refactoring, until it shames the "rewrite", a

> Stories of folks who gradually build ownership over the creaky "legacy" codebase and polish it up with Sisyphean refactoring, until it shames the "rewrite", are out there, and they're real. Never seen it in practice. Is this a real thing?