Having worked adjacent to some of these kinds of projects, can't upvote this enough. Not to mention that business doesn't take the suggested 1-2 years to simpl

Having worked adjacent to some of these kinds of projects, can't upvote this enough. Not to mention that business doesn't take the suggested 1-2 years to simply document and define test cases for the old/new system to ensure such a new system works, and simply start working on the new system based on what the business/da types drew up. Missing literally tens of thousands of legal edge cases defined in the legacy codebase.