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There are many ways to answer this and you did an excellent job.  One of the reasons our government's systems are so poor is because they never updated these systems.  One part of an update means utilizing newer programming languages.  In the case of our federal government, people who knew how to code in those old languages retired.  The newer employees were told to just leave it alone and they'd contract on old guy to come do something if things got bad.  Well, those old guys are dying.  Good strategy!

There are also the limitations of some older things like PHP.  And the old school ways of tabling data.  Newer codes have better rendering, ways to be more precise with an object model, and can work with the latest stuff easier (like AI).  The downside comes from trying to integrate with older systems.  You may have to blend some stuff that takes some workarounds.  Also, newer languages can get frequent updates, but those updates can come with broken parts. 

To your point Carsten, those updates eventually sort things out.