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What he's missing here is that this is a great strategy for any tech that will be hard to get rid of. Overly complex tech strongly integrated with businesses internal apps and procedures rarely disappear when something better comes along. Name a major company supplying enterprise software and there's probably better stuff. You don't see everyone flocking to it.

The concept is called lock-in. One can build a career strategy on it if done right. Just ask all the people working 9a-5p getting paid a premium to do SAP, legacy Microsoft, Oracle, COBOL on IBM mainframes, pipelines between legacy data sources/consumers, and so on. Some of this gets hit by outsourcing but many jobs remain. And one can always start an outsourcing consultancy with in-country, priority support or services. ;)

So, it's a valid approach that's working out for many much better than alternatives which require dozens of constantly changing skills and high layoff risks due to being replaceable & easy to automate. I'm not saying it's the best or lowest risk approach. You'll probably hate the career unless you see work as a means to an end to have fun in spare time. It's got lots of potential though.