Agreed. My point is that the orgs paying for all these updates were mostly motivated by the vague claims of experts rather than concrete examples
It was thankless work that is still glossed over and waved away today, but it was all a very big deal throughout the late 90s.
Mike Judge even made a movie about it! Office Space might be the most recognition turn of the millennium programmers will receive.
The latter is just a ripe plumb, left to rot in the backlog.