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In my experience one of the main reasons for wanting to scrap code is not only that it has scaling/other tech issues, it also has very poor separation of concerns.

Granted, that concept can and should be introduced into old codebases. Last year my team successfully warded off the Sirens of Rewrite by just doing the hard work of extracting all of the dead framework calls and then NOT adding them back in drag-and-drop style, but properly exposing them through interfaces that don’t require everything to know everything about the particular replacement framework we used.