Of course. Implied in the senior developer's solution ("migration") is a plan to navigate those challenges - technically, politically and socially. What I tend

Of course. Implied in the senior developer's solution ("migration") is a plan to navigate those challenges - technically, politically and socially. What I tend to see is ignorant management insisting that there must be an easier way, rejecting all empirical evidence to the contrary, even going so far as to reject the concept of engineering tradeoffs entirely. It's as if the experience and accumulated wisdom of the senior ICs is valuable only insofar as it makes them slightly more productive code monkeys, merely speeding up the existing plan put in place by management without any say in said plan. Why even hire senior employees at that point?