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assuming you propose the idea to migrate to kotlin, it would go something like this:
if management says yes, you now have like 20 people who have vetted and agreed with the idea. once you start writing Kotlin it's not like EVERYTHING is all of the sudden Kotlin. it's an iterative process, and hopefully you have test coverage. you can even re-use your existing java tests since the languages are interoperable. Assuming you follow a normal development process, the odds of a catastrophic bug coming out of nowhere to cause millions of dollars of losses wouldn't even cross my mind.
that being said, assuming the current code works decently well, management will have no motivation or reason to approve a total rewrite in a new language. it's more likely that they will only approve starting to trickle in kotlin for new projects or features, which even further reduces the likelihood of a catastrophic bug happening.
sadly, it would fail at the first step.
I convinced my Fortune 500 company to allow Kotlin as an option for our dev teams, by pointing out: