Architecture designed in the 70&#x27;s to run common stuff on terrible computers was necessarily bad. There was solid architecture from 1960&#x27;s-1980&#x27;s that was great for management, reliability, security, and so on. HW was too expensive. The alternatives flourished on minicomputers and personal computers with tons of software built on them. Legacy effects took over from there with nobody able or willing to re-engineer everything from scratch or even existing, complex code.<p>So, yes they suck. Yes superior architectures or languages of the time are worth copying or adopting over the knockoffs created due to hardware deficiencies. This is often even provable where one can look at problems that crop up in technology X caused by design point Y that&#x27;s prevented by alternative design Z. And one of those alternatives was from 1961. ;)