> I think this is partially true but it’s important to make sure the garbage is on fire before cleaning it up. Yeah. Especially true as the article mentions te

> I think this is partially true but it’s important to make sure the garbage is on fire before cleaning it up. Yeah. Especially true as the article mentions tech debt as an example. Too many times I've seen overeager developers early in their careers insist that the most important thing in the world is rewriting the old service written in C++/ASP/whatever, without respecting the fact that the old service has been dutiful performing mostly without issue for years, and the only time it comes up is the one time per year someone needs to go in and spend two weeks adding a minor feature or bugfix.