Also I wanted to add that it doesn't make sense for the dev team to make a ton of big changes right now. Assuming the plan is to completely rewrite the code in a modern programming language (that's the plan right?), then its probably best to wait. Otherwise they'll be doing the work twice, once with the old code and once with the new code. Of course, I'm not a programmer so maybe that's not the case.
I do want to see job firings, but I'm willing to be patient while they undertake the massive job of overhauling the code, which I'm guessing will take months at the very least.