Technical debt is not maintenance. Technical debt is the additional maintenance for which you create a need when, presented with multiple options to implement

Technical debt is not maintenance. Technical debt is the additional maintenance for which you create a need when, presented with multiple options to implement a thing, you take the quickest and dirtiest one. It compounds the more you make decisions like that, just as compounding interest and capitalization create ever higher amounts of monetary debt. Also, I found their self-referenced article on how Windows required more work than the pyramids, using man hours as a metric, simply absurd. This strikes me as a mythical man month type fallacy but can’t quite put my finger on it.