"and if you can't forsee at least somewhat in the future, you're not doing it right" This is the idea I'm trying to discuss. You cannot know future trade offs

"and if you can't forsee at least somewhat in the future, you're not doing it right" This is the idea I'm trying to discuss. You cannot know future trade offs in advance. You can only make a bunch of assumptions about the future. But the more assumptions you make, the fewer of them will be correct or worthy of the time and even more will not be addressed at all. Which defeats the purpose of the technical debt concept. Jumping into the future with the "no-technical-debt" solution is generally a bad idea.