[recoiledsnake]

>I sometimes wonder why these interfaces are so freaking common for anything not facing the general public.

It's simple, the choice is to either use it or find a new job. Quitting is not easy or practical to many people.

Even the general public faces such choices with atrocious bank, DMV, govt sites etc. written 10 years ago in with CGI or ASP. (and a COBOL backend).

[mmahemoff]

Yep and sites like this get the back button treatment if they're public sites, but you don't know about it until you start working there when it's intranet crud.