> to not address the root issues but just scaffold on top of them and try to hide the ugly bits under the carpet, I feel a bit vindicated.

There's only one area I sorta give a pass, and that's mainframes. It takes an insane amount of physical servers to replace a mainframe. Why IBM didn't invest more into making mainframes a drastically better platform for devs is beyond me. I don't know that any other server platform has ever achieved the level of uptime a mainframe has.

Still, it is no excuse to leave them with ultra legacy code that remains unmaintained for decades.