> And your response is surely “Well of course, that would be nice, but it’s not as simple as that. Here are constraints X Y and Z that make a trivial solution i

> And your response is surely “Well of course, that would be nice, but it’s not as simple as that. Here are constraints X Y and Z that make a trivial solution infeasible.” Sometimes it’s “It was made many months/years ago in circumstances and with views that no longer seem to apply (possibly by people no longer there). Sadly, the cost of switching to something else would be significant and nobody wants to take on the risk of rewriting it because it works.” It depends.