Local environmental hazards like this have unanimous bipartisan support for being thorough and transparent, thats how we got legislation like the Clean Air Act. How greased hands and coverup agents feel about it is a separate matter.
How many people graduate in computers and say “now I want to go maintain 25 year old enterprise Java code for banks?” No? Same principle applies.
It’s hard to get people to maintain the boring stuff in a country with so much interesting shiny new stuff going on.
It doesn’t help that these industries are also low margin and are not attractive investment targets.
A quick search shows Bank of America turned a net profit in '23 of $6.9B. It would be trivial for them to pay a fleet of engineers $250k/yr+ for Java maintenance.
Ignoring maintenance is always a company choice, not a personal one.