Technical debt doesn't (usually) cause "quick death" to companies. I think a good analogy is that technical debt is like having a poor diet - if you don't fix

Technical debt doesn't (usually) cause "quick death" to companies. I think a good analogy is that technical debt is like having a poor diet - if you don't fix it you end up with diabetes and other issues. Sure they're treatable, but it becomes harder and harder to continue innovating. When all is said and done, you don't know for sure if that poor diet was what lead to a companies demise - but there's no way it helped them.