Absolutely agree, and I personally use this as a potential red flag for new people we hire.
Legacy systems have gone through so many fixes and shifts that it's almost impossible to recreate them without deep understanding of the business demands it meets.
The business part, I would say, is critical to being able to maintain (or re-write) a project.
Legacy systems have gone through so many fixes and shifts that it's almost impossible to recreate them without deep understanding of the business demands it meets.
The business part, I would say, is critical to being able to maintain (or re-write) a project.