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> Start paying 250k a year for cobol developers and the problem fixes itself really fast.

Do you think they aren't? I don't know any now, but the last one I did was making more than that 15 years ago.

Old crufty legacy systems in a big bureaucracy are many peoples idea of hell. Empirically speaking, good pay and job security aren't enough to have people knocking down your door for that kind of work if they have other decent options.