Products are more often sidelined by technical debt than they are killed by it. A typical scenario is: 1) Product becomes too hard to change but has many exis

Products are more often sidelined by technical debt than they are killed by it. A typical scenario is: 1) Product becomes too hard to change but has many existing customers 2) Product is off-shored, and costs of maintenance are under-estimated because it depends on a vast technical ecosystem 3) Alternative products are developed to replace revenue of the original The original product can live in this moribund state for decades.