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It's simple and comparatively easy to make reliable, but a factor in its continued use is that's so prevalent in hard-to-change places: the web, libraries, old OSs, switches, other battle-hardened systems, etc.

It's the largest distributed database ever. It's not simple or easy, but it works very well and has for decades.

No doubt it is well written, simple code, but that's not even the main reason it's so widespread.

The point is that the moment it was written is even more important than how well it was written.

Though I suppose that if it had been really bad code it would have been replaced long ago.

Is it the same code or the same protocol?