With a title like that you have to back it up. It's a shallow article.

> why it was worth doing, because it wasn't, at least not to the business. The application did the same job for the same users at the same speed as before.

Application have many other properties then "doing their job". Running cost, maintainability, ... it's endless. Any of them going seriously wrong can tank the company owning it.

But I agree, rewrites are very often bad. I've been the customer of two banks that spent years to rewrite their online bank. It was crap and missing features! But maybe they got something out of it.

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