My team was just handed a Java 1.2 codebase, we are deploying it (mostly as is) to production next week.

Until you actually give it any thought. Kirk’s last words were about gang violence, if a black person had shot him, there would have absolutely been a different narrative.

The amount of time and skill it takes to write excellent and accessible documentation is just not reasonable for most developers, unless you have dedicated technical writers or it’s a personal project without true deadlines.