These projects are low in the glamour stakes, a hard slog, and their value underappreciated. But untangling the technology into up-to-date, composable lego blocks to make IT change easier in the future, is a "no brainer" foundation to almost any company in an incumbent industry.

Is the goal to turn it the messy spaghetti into neat and tasty little tortellini?

P.S. Thank you for the shout out on your edited version of this.