I will add myself to the others suggesting you to look for another job. 1) A rewrite from scratch is almost always a bad idea, especially if the business side

I will add myself to the others suggesting you to look for another job. 1) A rewrite from scratch is almost always a bad idea, especially if the business side is doing just fine. By the way, when you want to sell a rewrite, you don't sell a rewrite, you sell an investment in a new product (with a new team) and a migration path; it's a different mindset, and you have to show business value in the new product (still ends up failing most of the time, but it has a better chance of getting approved). 2) You never ever try to change people (or yourself) directly. It's doomed to failure. You change the environment, then the environment changes the people (if the changes are slow and inertia is working for you, otherwise people just leave). Since probably it would be too hard to change the environment by yourself and given that your team seems fine with the status quo, my advice it to just manage things as they are while you look for another job. Otherwise my bet is that your life will be miserable.