I actually agree. In my experience though, since the design is more visible to business people, it's easier to convince them it's needed. Tech debt gets attenti

I actually agree. In my experience though, since the design is more visible to business people, it's easier to convince them it's needed. Tech debt gets attention when development grinds to a halt and productivity takes a toll. The other thing in my experience is that usually the dev is last in line when it comes to decision making, unless you have a strong tech person who can take control of the product vision and push back. But those people are rare since they have to wear multiple hats. Usually I see that designers make the design first based on some use case or story and the devs then get to code it.