User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-35944674-20200526180129/@comment-24006128-20200526180532

"NOBODY WANTS THIS" is a falsehood.

Updating the MediaWiki software upon which Fandom is based has been the most requested platform enhancement over the past 5 or so years. Building a new codebase to do it is how we can make that happen in the cleanest way possible.

Where we can, we're opting to keep features as close to the same as possible or go with stock features provided by the Wikimedia Foundation, but some of the custom features for the legacy Fandom platform are not viable going forward, due to the technical debt they represent and blockers they raise for responsible updating of the platform in the future.