On the other hand, the presence of an alternative is the persuasion. It's very easy to justify for yourself why you aren't addressing the hard problems in your

On the other hand, the presence of an alternative is the persuasion. It's very easy to justify for yourself why you aren't addressing the hard problems in your codebase. Combine that with a captive audience, and you end up with everyone running the same steaming heap of technical debt and being unhappy about it. But the second an alternative starts to get off the ground there's suddenly a reason to address those big issues: people are leaving, and it is clear that complacency is no longer an option. Either evolve, or accept that you'll perish.