Until you have had to work with complexity guzzling junior developers who cannot help but chase the new sparkle, consider yourself lucky to be working on a stab

Until you have had to work with complexity guzzling junior developers who cannot help but chase the new sparkle, consider yourself lucky to be working on a stable codebase that is readable. It sounds to me like the team has turned down some of your ideas that you feel would make the codebase "better".