> you also can't ignore everything new in the name of consistency and expect anyone to want to work on the project. The strategy will cause a variant of the Co

> you also can't ignore everything new in the name of consistency and expect anyone to want to work on the project. The strategy will cause a variant of the Cobol effect. You'll either have to pay developers obscene wages to put up with your consistent but antiquated codebase, or try to find developers who are willing to put up with it for normal wages. The latter probably aren't the people you want on your team.