Background: I work mostly with projects that have <1 year delivery date. It's always better to fix the code I completely agree - in reality there simply isn't

Background: I work mostly with projects that have <1 year delivery date. It's always better to fix the code I completely agree - in reality there simply isn't always the time. In an idealistic world products aren't released until they are ready and bugs are never produced. But... There's deadlines and there's certainly not time allocated to fixing code unless a bug appears there. Once a milestone or deliverable is met, as far as a manager is concerned it's case closed. Whilst I agree with you from an idealistic stand point, for myself and my line of work I need to leave TODOs to fix the code if the time permits before the release time. Corners get cut and you need some way of knowing where those corners are.