Calling tech debt maintenance seems a little odd. I've always understood tech debt to be the shortcuts we take along the way to ship fast(er). A global variabl

Calling tech debt maintenance seems a little odd. I've always understood tech debt to be the shortcuts we take along the way to ship fast(er). A global variable here, a hardcoded constant there, that copy-pasted-slightly-modified function instead of adding a parameter. Fixing those things seems qualitatively different from the maintenance examples.