I've heard technical debt (abstractly) as a reason for a lot of these arguments. IE, we can't step back from this argument because the code is important, it wil

I've heard technical debt (abstractly) as a reason for a lot of these arguments. IE, we can't step back from this argument because the code is important, it will cause all these problems down the road. But of if course two people disagree on which path is actually correct and which produces more technical debt, what then?