It's just delaying maintenance. We're bad at recognizing that software requires maintenance and periodic updates/replacement, same as anything physical. Busine

It's just delaying maintenance. We're bad at recognizing that software requires maintenance and periodic updates/replacement, same as anything physical. Businesses think once it's written it will always just work...and that's true if the underlying OS and hardware never change, and the business never changes, and requirements never change. But even if it's a completely niche application whose requirements never change, after a while the hardware breaks, and we can't buy the same, and we can't license the old OS or it has documented problems that won't be fixed, so we have to use a new one, and we can't get the old software dependencies to work on the new one, etc etc.