Technical debt != maintenance.. Maintenance is just maintenance. Technical debt is having to jump through arbitrary hoops to satisfy a code base or piece of tec

Technical debt != maintenance.. Maintenance is just maintenance. Technical debt is having to jump through arbitrary hoops to satisfy a code base or piece of technology instead of being able to directly address the problem at hand. With that said, I do agree that all code has some degree of technical debt but that can be limited by good design.