Fun fact: very few developers (especially newbies) enjoy working on legacy projects. New features push the business forward, lets you learn faster, you aren't

Fun fact: very few developers (especially newbies) enjoy working on legacy projects. New features push the business forward, lets you learn faster, you aren't constrained by the garbage someone else wrote years ago but don't have the budget to change, and it looks better on a resume in an industry where the average term of employment is 2 years because new hires get bigger pay bumps than annual raises give.