[dragonwriter]

Yes,it motivates companies not to do expensive, unnecessary, high-risk complete replacements.

This may be less fun for developers, but it's not usually a bad decision.

[Chyzwar]

High-risk complete replacements happen because some risk-averse developers/management resisted change for decades and now the company cannot gradually modernize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system

[olliej]

right?

All engineers love rewriting everything, because that's human nature: "I can totally do this better than the last person".