I work in a place filled with broken yaks where only new projects have privilege and everything else is denigrated as maintenance and often shuffled to outsourc

I work in a place filled with broken yaks where only new projects have privilege and everything else is denigrated as maintenance and often shuffled to outsourced teams. Only when a yak causes major customer complaints does it get "shaved". There is no encouragement or reward in fixing things that are broken or to avoid them breaking eventually. Maybe we as technologists only like new and exciting things and keeping older (not necessarily all that old) things working well is considered beneath us.