[BoorishBears]

You can keep feeding off examples of the subset of Fortune 500s that refuse to compete for top talent in the wider market and instead try and keep zombie projects shuffling because of their mismanagement using contractors and outsourced labor... they also tend to have the kind of engineering culture that pushes away innovators, treats development as a cost center, and generally avoid investment in any sort of long term growth of their talent...

But yeah, why compete with the rest of the Fortune 500 that hire top talent to build out new systems...

when you can pay a "fixer" who prides themselves on self-flagellation keeping legacy systems with no source targeting platforms designed for computing as it existed decades ago (that only exist because of gross mismanagement and a general view of development as a cost center)?

What's interesting to me is someone would actually try to hold this up this dance as something the rest of the tech industry should aspire to uphold lol. Maybe because it makes for less "war stories" deep in the bowels of decade old systems with no documentation successfully migrated to the latest Jenga block in their leaning towers?

Imagine if other fields worked like this

"Our materials science company prides itself on only releasing plastics that can be molded using what was state of the art 20 years ago"

"Our competitor Macrohard insists on occasionally releasing new plastics that are stronger and cheaper to develop with, but we cater to those shops that refuse to invest in techs who know newer processes!"