I see this story here all the time, but I have never seen it play out in the real world. Most rewrites I've seen have been hugely successful. This sounds more l

I see this story here all the time, but I have never seen it play out in the real world. Most rewrites I've seen have been hugely successful. This sounds more like a sticky narrative that everyone keeps repeating to tell a nice story, get attention, and make them look experienced. In reality, no experienced engineer is so naive as to think that the new system will be a perfect thing of wonder or not look at the tradeoffs made in the old codebase. Reality is more nuanced than these simplistic fictional narratives.