> they had to scrap their whole prior frontend web app and rewrite it from scratch How do people decide to do rewrites rather than incrementally improve an exi

> they had to scrap their whole prior frontend web app and rewrite it from scratch How do people decide to do rewrites rather than incrementally improve an existing app? Unless there's a language change involved, I would almost always go with the incremental refactor... as long as someone's committed to actually doing the work.