I maintain code written by my company's founder from 1998. It hadn't seen many updates to maintain it. It saw a LOT of enhancements. I'm currently unwinding tho

I maintain code written by my company's founder from 1998. It hadn't seen many updates to maintain it. It saw a LOT of enhancements. I'm currently unwinding those changes into a full library of support features. It's also not my primary focus. Many new features to fulfill customer needs is a common reason. Many customers, with new requests, issues reported. It's slow because if I'm not methodical I cause problems for people who don't want this next enhancements. It's slow, because the current emergency takes precedence, and taking to long on fixes means a meeting on why something is behind. Business priority is not "deliver fast" it's "keep running, don't attract attention".