There is an opposite extreme seen on government software efforts...imagine systems that have been around 15,20,25 years. Interfaces frozen from the days of main

There is an opposite extreme seen on government software efforts...imagine systems that have been around 15,20,25 years. Interfaces frozen from the days of mainframe, millions upon millions of lines of code, written not necessarily by software engineers, but other engineers. There's a point where it is really really smart to throw away pieces of that system and regenerate them. You produce a lot of cruft of 20 years.