The solution is to rewrite everything from scratch following sane design principles instead of adding more layers of cruft. The language could be C, C++, Rust,

The solution is to rewrite everything from scratch following sane design principles instead of adding more layers of cruft. The language could be C, C++, Rust, Zig. But the design is more important than the language. Of course, no one with enough resources to do this cares enough to do it.