A codebase that I can ramp up on in 2 days is a well made codebase, not a boring codebase. Byzantine Java codebases that use an ancient version of struts and reams and reams of useless badly design xml configuration files are boring and take forever to ramp up on.

Younger people dislike C++ and Java codebases not because they're boring, but because they come with reams and reams of badly designed verbose crap that takes forever to learn and wastes everybody's time. They don't have to be, but statistically they do more often than not.