The flip side of technical debt is, what tools do you have to actually solve technical debt? Some technical debt comes from conscious decisions to choose an expedient solution over a long term one, but a lot of it just comes from not knowing what the future is going to bring, and not wanting to over-engineer for every possible outcome.
The question I'd ask is, shouldn't we have tools that make it super easy to change things, so we can adapt to different outcomes without it becoming a huge slog?
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The flip side of technical debt is, what tools do you have to actually solve technical debt? Some technical debt comes from conscious decisions to choose an expedient solution over a long term one, but a lot of it just comes from not knowing what the future is going to bring, and not wanting to over-engineer for every possible outcome.
The question I'd ask is, shouldn't we have tools that make it super easy to change things, so we can adapt to different outcomes without it becoming a huge slog?