Obviously satire, but in real life, there are reasons why a full rewrite becomes appealing. Perhaps the solution even.
One is overwhelming technical debt. Code where the project manager didn't believe in encapsulation, or refactoring, or none of that "architectural nonsense", and was only fired 5 years too late. Code that is difficult to understand, maintain, test, debug, change. Code that follows you home after-hours and on the week-ends. Code that nurses you to bed at night, shows up in your dreams, and wakes you up in the morning. Code that has made many a colleague look for employment elsewhere and new hires give up and quit in their first week.
Every time I see someone profess with assurance that you don't rewrite, I just know that that person has never really experienced the hell I've described above.
One is overwhelming technical debt. Code where the project manager didn't believe in encapsulation, or refactoring, or none of that "architectural nonsense", and was only fired 5 years too late. Code that is difficult to understand, maintain, test, debug, change. Code that follows you home after-hours and on the week-ends. Code that nurses you to bed at night, shows up in your dreams, and wakes you up in the morning. Code that has made many a colleague look for employment elsewhere and new hires give up and quit in their first week.
Every time I see someone profess with assurance that you don't rewrite, I just know that that person has never really experienced the hell I've described above.