I’m not sure that article really aged well. Code rots pretty quickly nowadays. Convoluted old code no one understands starts to create wicked bugs as future teams wedge in new features. Processors get overloaded. Memory leaks appear. Libraries evolve. Design trends change.
I'm just seeing a lot of articles about bad rewrites recently, it could have started even before this one. It's just it wasn't as prominent as it is now I think
