As I was reading this post I was about to reply with something similar but you nailed it. The vast majority of software written isn’t there just to be pretty,

As I was reading this post I was about to reply with something similar but you nailed it. The vast majority of software written isn’t there just to be pretty, it serves a business goal and as long as that goal is met (on time!) and the cost of supporting it is within budget then why fix something that isn’t broken.