The good thing with technical debt is inflation in some way. The code will likely get rewritten every few years with new features in mind, or will change signif

The good thing with technical debt is inflation in some way. The code will likely get rewritten every few years with new features in mind, or will change significantly anyway so it's almost as if it's inflation. If technical debt allows you to get great gains in short time through product (just like any useful debt), technical debt is warranted. I spent 6.5 years in google and seen an sdk get rewritten 2 times, 3rd was about to happen after I left but product director asked me if it was warranted, I said it sounds more like all these problems you are mentioning are monitoring/detection/testing problems and rewriting it won't make sense. The code did have technical debt, but it didn't matter