User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-68.118.179.12-20210107232835/@comment-1038387-20210109124349

It is, though.

Websites have to constantly adapt to deal with the changing environment. New insights in readership, advances in mobile technology, the adpocalypse, and general UX ideas. They all change. And this change is more severe because they hadn't changed in so long. But now, for future updates, that won't be an issue (as much).

UCP had to happen. There's no painless way to rip the bandaids off Legacy.