Should not be a tough sell. Refactoring, from an OKR perspective, means you are protecting the ability to ship. Which means that there are tacit implications to

Should not be a tough sell. Refactoring, from an OKR perspective, means you are protecting the ability to ship. Which means that there are tacit implications to OKRs. Nobody would want you to prioritize some rando OKR that would cause code quality to drop to the point that it impacts shipping (because now there are, say, bugs that shut off entire functional areas or something stupid like that). OKRs have built-in assumptions and these tend to be around protecting existential abilities of the company, like shipping code.