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What I thought hilarious, when the author was describing a series of tools that were maintained for a long period of time.. that was the complex system. No attempts were made to reduce the complexity, because the cost was not worth the increased value. Maybe that specific part, realizing the business driver of systems, is what makes a Systems Engineer.

And even though your specific application won't EOL, there are many times where features are deprecated and that complex system must be altered. Maybe I'm just grizzled in my old age, but it seems like this author was writing about Systems Engineering while claiming not to know what it is..