As I ve gotten more experience in tech, I came up with a saying - Everything great was created in the 80s, and we ve been rediscovering those things every ten years since.
I m not firm on the 80s - maybe this stuff is older than I think - but I think the principle still holds. If it s a problem today, somebody probably thought about it before, and then others came around and wrapped things differently.
It s not BAD to wrap things differently, but the old stuff had more of the sharp corners sanded off, and sometimes we lose that battle-hardened aspect when we rewrite code.