I agree with you. But I guess the problem stems from having to prioritize between building the next shiny thing or actually going back and fixing the problem.

I agree with you. But I guess the problem stems from having to prioritize between building the next shiny thing or actually going back and fixing the problem. Even worse is that many of these problems have rather low short-term impact and a much larger long-term impact, which makes it even harder to justify/explain to the person making the prioritization. It's much easier to hide it behind the facade of "technical debt" to which everyone intuitively agrees it's a problem. But yes having people with the competence to actually understand the clear cut issues also making the prioritization would be nice.