Was it really less trouble to rewrite the codebase than to enhance something like shumway and run the existing code on a modern platform? I think there's a temp

Was it really less trouble to rewrite the codebase than to enhance something like shumway and run the existing code on a modern platform? I think there's a temptation to view platforms as given, inviolate, and immutable entities, when in reality, we can and should make our own when necessary.