"Time to market" is what supposedly drives most technical debt, but most people would probably argue that our problem is having too much technical debt, not too

"Time to market" is what supposedly drives most technical debt, but most people would probably argue that our problem is having too much technical debt, not too little of it. And buggy code is a sort of tech debt that's especially costly to pay down - putting out fires in production is easily 10x as expensive as fixing the same issues at their outset via more careful coding.