1) Don't apologize to me because you don't understand how business works. 2) If you need to make a profit (and NOT just light someone else's money on fire), yo

1) Don't apologize to me because you don't understand how business works. 2) If you need to make a profit (and NOT just light someone else's money on fire), you can't afford to just throw away your profitable product(s) and rebuild them because some devs are easily triggered prima donnas who want to whine because "legacy." That's not how business works in the real world. 3) Companies (again, the ones who must make a profit) aren't going to get clients that way. Clients invest in software because the large upfront costs and small maintenance costs will amortize over the many years they intend on using this product. They aren't going to fund rewriting the product from scratch multiple times. 4) Clients are not going to fund a rewrite ever few years because the cost of rewriting is not "many orders of magnitude cheaper," that's a complete and total fiction. I know this because I've participated in ROM estimates for clients. Of course, if your "business" has unlimited VC funds coming in then its backwards land. But most businesses exist to make a profit, not to spend someone else's money.