I’ve always found the metaphors around Technical Debt really interesting. They simplify it to a point where everyone “gets it”; however I have often worried whe

I’ve always found the metaphors around Technical Debt really interesting. They simplify it to a point where everyone “gets it”; however I have often worried whether there’s a cult of “anti-technical-debt”, much like there are the cults of “absolutely no credit card debt / usage ever”. Sure, it works for some, but I’ve also seen product progress completely halt over the argument of “that’s adding to our technical debt”, surely it would be phrased better as “this is adding to our customers experience, at the cost of our chase for purity and technical perfection”? As has been said a few times in this thread: there’s nuance to engineering, and a careful trade off. I think the metaphors are weaponized to a point where that nuance is lost in harsh memories of student-era credit card debt.