Their timescales are clearly extremely unrealistic, but I don't understand the motivation for doing this at all. > “DOGE thinks if they can say they got rid of

Their timescales are clearly extremely unrealistic, but I don't understand the motivation for doing this at all. > “DOGE thinks if they can say they got rid of all the COBOL in months, then their way is the right way, and we all just suck for not breaking shit,” says the SSA technologist I'm struggling to believe that this is the real motivation. But what is it? Speculation: they don't know how to backdoor the legacy codebase/platform so they first need to transform it into something they can more easily subvert?