[cowsandmilk]

> Certainly not enough to warrant a COBOL career.

I don't understand why people are claiming this sets your career to only ever write COBOL. I know plenty of people who started their careers with perl, but have been Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, or Rust programmers at different points as their careers progressed.

Someone overseeing a project migrating a COBOL monolith over time to a set of decoupled services in some other language would easily have a strong story for the timeless need of improving application architecture.