Definitely agree. My first few gigs were in consultancy and after seeing how the sausage is made I don't feel much like calling out these kinds of old systems a

Definitely agree. My first few gigs were in consultancy and after seeing how the sausage is made I don't feel much like calling out these kinds of old systems anymore. The budgets and deadlines are tight, the people working on them are often inexperienced and underpaid and have little time to sit down and think things through, and when they have to work on an old system to add some features they have little time and incentives to improve the overall state of things.