Regulations, I’m guessing.

Regulations are a good excuse, but there is still a lot of fuckery in Finance apps, especially in the Fintech space.

Stability is something that must be culturally hammered and enforced by leadership.

Regulations (as sibling comment mentioned) is one aspect, but also the cost of screwing up is real-world. A status quo system that isn’t screwing up has a much higher bar to replace where the risk that the replacement system will screw up.

Much of the same reasoning and even more extremely applied, is medtech - hence why you see many medical imaging setups still obviously running a version of Windows XP.

Regulation and risk. The same applied to government too.

The cost (financial, legal, reputation) of certain classes of bugs is so high that avoiding those risks becomes top concern.

One calculation issue, one buggy float operation means millions or billions in damage and the loss of your clients ... never to return ... because your name is tarnished.

I actually think this is _wrong_ and we need better resiliency in finance to being able to roll-back transactions and rewind and replay with adjustments.