> there is a ton of legacy functionally that is still in there that needs to be gotten rid of, but nobody wants to go through the trouble of submitting a change request to get the old cruft out.
Nonsense. Go and learn about things known as law commissions, and the work that they've been doing for a long time, now. The Law Commission of India, for example, has existed since the middle 19th century, and is currently in its 21st incarnation since 1955. Go and look at the several Statute Law (Repeals) Acts that have been enacted in the U.K. from the 1960s onwards. Law reform commissioners were appointed ad hoc for a century before formal standing commissions, moreover. In Australia and Canada, for instance, they were appointed by Letters Patent at least as far back as the 1870s. (One example: Adam Wilson QC, appointed in Ontario in October 1871.)
If you project software engineering onto how law works, you are going to get twaddle.
Nonsense. Go and learn about things known as law commissions, and the work that they've been doing for a long time, now. The Law Commission of India, for example, has existed since the middle 19th century, and is currently in its 21st incarnation since 1955. Go and look at the several Statute Law (Repeals) Acts that have been enacted in the U.K. from the 1960s onwards. Law reform commissioners were appointed ad hoc for a century before formal standing commissions, moreover. In Australia and Canada, for instance, they were appointed by Letters Patent at least as far back as the 1870s. (One example: Adam Wilson QC, appointed in Ontario in October 1871.)
If you project software engineering onto how law works, you are going to get twaddle.