User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-45509950-20201030023500/@comment-24006128-20201030124711

The legacy platform was extremely outdated and showing its age quite a bit. Things were only going to get worse for it and the worse it got, the less time we would have to build new features and enhancements. The dev teams were already occupied with reverse engineering security updates that would have come standard with engine updates.

By doing this project, we get back onto modern MediaWiki updates and can spend time working on new features and enhancements, rather than trying to hold the platform together all the time.