“We need to stop everything!” shout out Dave, your colleague developer, during a meeting with the stakeholders of BigBuckEcommerce, the company you work for. “Our application is a legacy system. We need to rewrite the whole thing before it’s too late! It will explode! We can’t manage this beast any longer!”

If I had received a coin each time the term “legacy” was thrown in a discussion about software development, I would write this article from a private island in my personal mansion. We all use these words as if they were widely known and accepted concepts, using them as arguments to take action.