No migration of this magnitude is blocked because of engineers not "bothering" to start the process. Imagine how many approvals you'd need, plus getting budget

No migration of this magnitude is blocked because of engineers not "bothering" to start the process. Imagine how many approvals you'd need, plus getting budget from who-knows how many government departments. Someone is paying for your time as an engineer and they decide what you work on. I'm glad we live in a world where engineers can't just decide to rewrite a life or death system because it's written in an old(er) programming language. (Not that there is any evidence that this specific system is written in anything older than C++ or maybe Ada.)