While I generally agree, technical debt is not waste, is debt. You borrow time by giving away quality. You pay that time with interests. If the loan is useful,

While I generally agree, technical debt is not waste, is debt. You borrow time by giving away quality. You pay that time with interests. If the loan is useful, that is, allows you to meet an otherwise impossible deadline, go for it. Maybe tomorrow there will be time to clean up. However if too much debt accumulates and there's no time to repay it it's bad