Sure, but a veteran coder at least understands that tampering with something may affect some other subsystem you don't even know exists until it breaks... which you wouldn't even think to test. The idea of throwing the phone staff into COBOL instead of them learning Python just obfuscates the real problem which isn't that the language is uncool and dying but that the systems are like the rules of the NFL. They stopped making sense a long time ago to anyone who wasn't immersed and paying attention.
Ah, yeah, fully agree - I just saw your mention of having 25 years experience, which made me think basically "if not you, then who?"
I didn’t intend to imply that the problem could be solved by an army of people fresh out of boot camps with no senior level supervision.
I'm also realizing now that just because you "would consider it extremely daunting" does not necessarily mean that you don't think you could be a net positive contributor.
