I don’t know that it’s a Golden Age fallacy here. Few people wax poetic about the IRS master file or Air Traffic Control systems. These systems are/were crucia

I don’t know that it’s a Golden Age fallacy here. Few people wax poetic about the IRS master file or Air Traffic Control systems. These systems are/were crucial and ancient but survived with hardware upgrades and love and care of dedicated staff. The Voyager was deployed once and the hardware has survived for decades. NASA flight control software of that era is a different league of fault tolerance and engineering. Writing it is also painful by modern software standards.