I feel this too. At an earlier role we had a well-architected PHP codebase that we were throwing away and replacing with graphql, scala, and angular. I was a ju

I feel this too. At an earlier role we had a well-architected PHP codebase that we were throwing away and replacing with graphql, scala, and angular. I was a junior dev so they threw me into fixing the "unimportant" legacy PHP system (which just so happened to be the thing making money for the company) instead of the shiny new rewrite. Never been happier in my life.