What may seem innocuous in one system now may end up being a huge roadblock later on down the line when you want to extend/modify/update said system with new fe

What may seem innocuous in one system now may end up being a huge roadblock later on down the line when you want to extend/modify/update said system with new features It may, that's true. But it's very unlikely, and what seems like a huge roadblock now in terms of missing functionality is much more likely to be a huge roadblock later as well. I think the point of this system is not to say that low-priority bugs are pointless - just that there's almost always going to be something higher priority, so they're not worth the tracking overhead.