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Not to mention when you want to change the entire system it becomes a huge operation and problem.
Massive risk to that change too.
So many people don't understand how risk informs everything a business does.
What cost is there to a given system being down for one hour? A day? Any regulations around it?
Often it's better to pay a known quantity up front than risk potential outages where you can't predict all the downstream affects.