I can't imagine not wanting to at least get on 4.8, we just did this year. Not that it was up to me to wait this long. But I definitely would advocate a project

I can't imagine not wanting to at least get on 4.8, we just did this year. Not that it was up to me to wait this long. But I definitely would advocate a project to get anything that may need updated quickly into configuration files. That's something we do well. The rest of the stack doesn't really matter, just a means to an end. Your group's bigger problem really is just general sloppiness.