Re: just how fragmented is the code base?
Let's see, we have an office "suite" that started out as 3 separate applications that got duct taped together 3 decades ago and have been updated numerous times, had other things shoehorned in, got ported to different operating systems, been relentlessly hacked, whacked and patched so much that the whole thing is now only held together by unicorn farts and happythoughts.