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I hear you.

But I think that dogmatically saying "You should never rewrite code from scratch" is just useful enough to catch the vast majority of instances when you should not rewrite code from scratch.

I'm willing to be called out for being totally wrong for my dogma in the rare instance that the application should be rewritten from scratch.

Every project I have ever joined on, there has been someone who wants to start fresh. There have been a lot of projects. There was one such instance where it was a good idea.