> Sounds like a way to say "I wrote shitty code, I know it, please merge it anyway", which is completely useless IMO. This is not a TODO issue, this is a merge

> Sounds like a way to say "I wrote shitty code, I know it, please merge it anyway", which is completely useless IMO. This is not a TODO issue, this is a merge criteria issue. TODO and its variants are only as useful as the process enforced surrounding their use. If a dev team agrees that code can't be merged until certain types of TODO-variants are addressed, then the comment may be useful. But of course, if no such process exists, they may not be useful. But that's a team/process issue, not a fundamental problem with using TODO comments.