Surely in a commercial setting the primary factor is RoI rather than time? Will rewriting this old, stable, code increase profits or substantial reduce revenue impacting risks?
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This is not applicable to every piece of code and roi should always be kept in mind but I'm my experience it is almost always the case
It applies to a lot of business areas. If you want to introduce new processes or fix any problems, you need to justify why you want to do that, and "This isn't very pretty" isn't generally considered a good enough reason. If something works, nobody ever got into trouble for leaving it alone.
If it's a smaller company (op mentioned 50-100 people) they might not even know what RoI is, and/or might not care about it.