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He did actually say at once point about scraping all the code base & starting from scratch!
Software Developer pro tip: Never ever get involved in any effort to rebuild the old system in new tech.
Make a new, smaller system to take new market instead of the old system? Good.
Suffer for years through an endlessly growing checklist of things that must be in this new thing because they were in the old thing? Arguing with sales whether you have to again rush out a fix for a customer that is important and absolutely depend on this integration with Microsoft Bob that nobody in the dev team even knew existed in the old system until the customer complained? Have release schedules set years in advance and constantly pushed because this thing will never ever ever be accepted as a replacement of the old system? Bad.