> I've never been able to hire a high performer with the remit of 'please take over this complex and custom system your predecessor built and walked away from'

> I've never been able to hire a high performer with the remit of 'please take over this complex and custom system your predecessor built and walked away from' - such people want to build that stuff themselves and someone else has already had the fun. Are you hiring right now, cos this sounds like fun? (modulo the likelihood that our definitions of high performance differ).