[bluetwo]

I think a big reason people opt to re-write is a lack of desire to understand the problem as a whole and belief that anything overlooked will get fixed in production. I agree we need to be suspicious of these intentions.

Not to brag, but I recently spent a week re-writing some software I developed over 5 years (thanks covid), and it runs 100x faster. No joke. Better code, better SQL, better indexing, less list manipulation. 100x faster.

[sukilot]

That's great work but anything you can do in a week and then throw away if it turns out bad is hardly a risky rewrite.