In general rewriting a well functioning, battle tested codebase is probably a bad idea. But sticking to “battle tested” means a local minima at times. For exam

In general rewriting a well functioning, battle tested codebase is probably a bad idea. But sticking to “battle tested” means a local minima at times. For example, there’s no shortage of CVEs in OpenSSL’s past or future. It’s definitely “battle tested”. And yet, that doesn’t mean someone shouldn’t try to write something better.