Of course, but I was just trying to explain that sometimes you are forced to innovate due to external interfaces/dependencies. And maybe these were introduced

Of course, but I was just trying to explain that sometimes you are forced to innovate due to external interfaces/dependencies. And maybe these were introduced in other companies because their IT depts. are run by "fashion of the month", but whatever the reason, you now have a problem. And if your sw and your skillset has remained frozen in jade since the early 90s... this will be painful and probably require at least one false start before getting it to work reliably. I have noted a tendency in people who work always on "very stable" technologies to go in crisis mode as soon they have to (for example) produce a file in XML or JSON format after 2 decades of CSVs... this unfortunately almost routinely ends in stuff which is very brittle ("XSD? you do not understand, we need to produce an XML, ... I dunno what an XSD is or has to do with this requirement - except that they both start with an X, maybe - so please do not make things unnecessarily complicated and just go back to coding, we were supposed to start testing one week ago.")