It's the gist of about 1/4 of the posts on this thread.

It's a little worrying that people will be upset by something that didn't happen to them and throw it all away without a second thought.

There was an op-Ed in the New York Times the other day about a former UN bureaucrat saying the UN is broken and needs reform, and the astounding reader reaction was essentially to burn it down and start fresh.

I don't think many programmers here would seriously advocate the same approach with large systems.