> The current system is the equivalent of some old unmaintainable shit written in COBOL . . . It just isn't! It really isn't. It is the way it is for good and

> The current system is the equivalent of some old unmaintainable shit written in COBOL . . . It just isn't! It really isn't. It is the way it is for good and historically motivated reasons. Can you elucidate those things? If you don't understand the rationale for the system as it exists, you can't propose an alternative that has any chance of success.