Im currently working as a software architect for the government. The software we are developing is not beneficial to any citizen. Additionally, there is no staf

Im currently working as a software architect for the government. The software we are developing is not beneficial to any citizen. Additionally, there is no staff to review and merge improvements. And merges need to get tested by regression as well, so bringing it to production would be cumberstone. Nonetheless, if we use another piece of software, we are preferring solutions where the code is open sourced. There needs to be enterprise support, though. And most of our colleagues are also pushing to pay our consultancies to improve these pieces of software. Our use cases with these solutions are kind of essential, so there are no possibilties to "give back". Any federal agency is supposed to cover one aspect of the government services. Developing individual software, which cover national laws. Also note that our software is almost 90% legacy code. And new solutions need to work around these quirks.