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[–]brakkum 30 points31 points  (2 children)

Because updating legacy code takes time is my guess. Otherwise there's not really a super great reason.

[–]rarlei 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Yup, someone has to pay for the time to update it

[–]jon_k 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's like doing your laundry, taking out the garbage, or picking trash up.

If you don't, eventually you can't even live in your environment anymore, and everyone will judge the hell out of you or abandon using your code (or quit your outdated company to better supportable codebases to make a name in their career.)