Independent of the question whether new tools are really better (they sometimes are, but often aren't): Fixing some very special such tool in a specialized ind

Independent of the question whether new tools are really better (they sometimes are, but often aren't): Fixing some very special such tool in a specialized industry is basically my job (in my case the replacement is better in bascially any sense). The problem is: while the users like the improvements that I implement for them, management (who knows next to nothing about software development) has a strong tendency to keep me on the short leash, believing there exist far more important stuff that I should do than improving the users' life and workflows, considering this a luxury that it does not want to afford. So, I can tell you when the (bad) tools that run the world will become fixed: when such managers die off. :-(