Imagine you're a CEO, or VP sales, or anyone with responsibility for moving the company forward. Lets say you have a technical background and actually understan

Imagine you're a CEO, or VP sales, or anyone with responsibility for moving the company forward. Lets say you have a technical background and actually understand how bad things can get with a codebase. Its year 2 and you're desperate to ramp sales. the company is in existential crisis, the end of the runway is approaching rapidly. The product ostensibly works, but there are lots of customer problems and new feature requests always seem to get bogged down. Your technical leaders say that the product has driven into a swamp, and you need 2 months to dig it out, plus 30% overhead ongoing to finish the cleanup and try to keep on the straight and narrow. Even though its the right thing to do in some world, how likely are you to say 'I understand, take all the time you need, we don't want these problems plaguing us'