I wish it was the norm for management to be looking 1-2 years out. Sometimes that tries to happen at the C level, but even then it doesn't seem to work its way down to line managers who are almost always focused on the next immediate deliverable. Future looking managers are the exception, not the rule in my experience.
"Oh, yeah, the rewrite will be done in 1yr, no worries"
One year passes, and you haven't started!