The profit, which is what actually matters is up.
> I'm not sure a few 19 year olds are going to do better than this organization. It's hard work.
The problem was never technical. Ever tried to get stuff done in a bloated corporation full of incompetent people that just want to keep their jobs and don't want you to expose how relatively incompetent they are, especially the management? Things that a competent engineer in a startup could do in a day, are impossible to do. And in a government it's probably 1000-fold so.
Dumping some data from legacy system to a modern one is not a problem. The problem is firing people that can't deal with change. "You don't know what you're doing. Everything is sooo complex. You're going to break it. I've been doing it for 50 years, I know what's right."