Thanks; and yes - I do believe, strongly, that business owners / stakeholders generally radically under-appreciate the costs of unintentional tech debt, which i

Thanks; and yes - I do believe, strongly, that business owners / stakeholders generally radically under-appreciate the costs of unintentional tech debt, which is mostly invisible to them. Regarding your proposed (tongue-in-cheek?) tactic of somehow making it apparent to end users as a way to get the attention of said stakeholders: user-perceived performance is actually, seriously, the bridge you're looking for. Companies are increasingly aware that performance (in the sense of site speed / WPO / UX latency) matters ^1. Suboptimal performance follows directly from failure to address tech debt. Efforts to improve performance are always stymied by tech debt. Thus, execs who learn to care about performance have become your allies. 1. https://wpostats.com https://wpostats.com