Tell them you agree.
If the applications are in maintenance mode then I don't see any reason to upgrade, potentially introducing new problems with no benefit to the company or its customers.
Keeping Delphi, and 3rd party libraries, up to date is a costly investment and unless a product is being actively developed that investment might not yield a sensible return.
Whenever someone mentions the idea of a completely rewriting something from scratch I simply respond "Like Netscape?"
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
I've been through a couple of successful complete rewrites myself, but they were architectural rewrites that were done incrementally. We basically refactored everything one tiny thing at a time until we finally arrived at the destination, many years later. And we stayed with Delphi. An incremental rewrite isn't really possible when you're replacing the platform.