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It may be because it's the vault codebase, a tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management.

One would hope that such a codebase is well understood and implemented.

Not necessarily.

There is even an argument that you want to be "the last" on the market.

For example, Google is the last "search engine" - it wasn't the first search engine on the market but it did grow to dominate the market when it arrived.

- Determine who you need to convince on this matter

- Find out what metrics they care about (time lost, money lost, potentially employees lost, clients lost).

- Formulate your proposal in a way that emphasises how those metrics will improve by hiring more developers.

Even if you get paid more, you still spend time learning knowledge and skills which aren't easily transferable to your next employer.

You can't get that time back so long-term it's probably better to develop software in a more modern ecosystem.

Having said that, I don't know your local market or industry.

You've already identified that it may not get much traffic and it isn't monetizable with two big ad networks.

It's worth experimenting with a few things but you may just need to move on to another project that has better chances.

It is essential to balance work with play. So you should not feel bad to play video games from time to time.

But if you're always doing things that involve a lot of thinking (work, study) it may be good to balance that with exercise or creating things with your hands.

If your work is not very exciting and it's unlikely to change then you may need to consider changing jobs.

You can automatically remove six from your codebase after you're Python 3.x only. So six can be a possible solution (provided you have automated tests).