> This business unit has a pretty aggressive roadmap as management and HQ has no real understanding of these blockers. And post COVID, budget is really tight I

> This business unit has a pretty aggressive roadmap as management and HQ has no real understanding of these blockers. And post COVID, budget is really tight In my view, as long as management believes this, a fix is not possible at all. You should forget about improving the code but see your job as a kind of consultancy thing where you teach management about what they have and the consequences of that are. And probably look for a new job. If you are completely successful with teaching management, it may be working on this, but it'd probably need to be renegotiated as if it were a new job