That sounds like a pretty sweet gig. Legacy companies especially are filled with lots of opportunities for hacky automation that can substationally improve the day to day lives of worker bees. The trick is getting leadership to support that kind of work. It sounds like you’ve been able to succeed in that regard, so kudos.

Also, my career has caused me to realize how much important stuff around the world relies on some idiotic code snippet someone wrote “as a temporary fix”.

If it’s stupid and it works, is it really stupid?

It’s always fun watching the clash between this reality and compliance/safety/regulatory folks, lol.