Technical debt, however, comes back to bite your ass, so you eventually learn how to deal with it with so called "best practices" - with better or worse results

Technical debt, however, comes back to bite your ass, so you eventually learn how to deal with it with so called "best practices" - with better or worse results. The point is that for game developers it's rare to have that pressure actually applied on them, which is reflected in what's considered "best practices" in that field and how fast they evolve compared to other fields.