There's also a psychological component for the devs. Asking me to fix your trash heap? Bye! Asking me to rewrite your trash heap? Sounds fun. In all of these d

There's also a psychological component for the devs. Asking me to fix your trash heap? Bye! Asking me to rewrite your trash heap? Sounds fun. In all of these discussions about reinventing/rewriting/reimplementing already solved x, people forget that other people aren't interested in maintaining something where the fun, education, and impact was already had by the people who came first! They want to have their own fun, education, or impact. Pretty much every conversation that starts with an angry "this has been a solved problem since such and such genius from the 70's did y" is born from misunderstanding what drives people to do anything.