Just rewrite it with 80% functionality and force migrations on the users. Once the remaining 20% "edge cases" that require serious effort hop to the next job - where you where hired to "maintain" such a system and "just add a small feature here and there". Ooops.

An American air-to-air missile modified for naval use, deployed on a land based Warsaw Pact launcher. Now that's something!

Three fries short of a Happy Meal.

This is getting out of hand!

So, basically this?

Better yet: Fuck'em without breaking the contract.

How much energy can it cost to replicate one coffee?

-- Janeway, probably

And why is he assembling/dressing a dalek?

I don’t want to build car hell yet again

this, so much

Instead I'd probably take multiple measurements some hundred milliseconds apart and do a basic statistical analysis (average as "main result", but also lowest percentile, highest percentile and median). That way I don't feel dirty for tricking the customer.

STDs

Those Klingon look more like ST:D/s to me