Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And not everything is a cold impersonal engineering decision. Programmers are people (really! we are!) and people like greenfields a

Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And not everything is a cold impersonal engineering decision. Programmers are people (really! we are!) and people like greenfields and blank canvases and fresh starts. And I'd also submit that a team of talented developers almost certainly will make a superior product if they have the ability to use the original as a reference and resource. The saying "Pioneers get the arrows, settlers get the land" comes to mind.