[thoughtleader31]

It absolutely reads like an ad and an a pedantic ad to boot.

The system wasn't built to handle modern workloads, that might be part of why people decry it being ancient.

Despite starting out talking about architecture, which would be a difficult problem to tackle when having to interface with systems built around abstractions and conventions of a couple different eras back, more than half the article veers into the relatively easier task of user-centric UI design that his company can bill for.

I mean, that'd be great too, but the article is bait and switch.