There are tens of thousands of companies who continue to work that way. You don't hear about them often, because there's nothing to write about.

Nothing is stopping you. Reject modernity, embrace stability.

fwiw that's what most of the big companies do on their product that actually make money. All the "kubernetes revolution" is pretty new, as are contianers, and companies move very slowly. The core products only move if they really see an advantage

Oh, we will. This is just another swing of the fat-vs-thin client pendulum.