And it's not like a day every now and then is enough to tackle the hairy issues that have been festering for years and are a pain point in your everyday work. P

And it's not like a day every now and then is enough to tackle the hairy issues that have been festering for years and are a pain point in your everyday work. Past bad architectural decisions embedded in the codebase for years won't be solved by taking a day to clean up every week, it requires focused work to pull strings around, experiment and start a solution that will be rolled out over months. I hate the view that allocating a fixed percentage of time every X week(s) instead of allocating proper time as a project to fix issues affecting the productivity of the whole team/engineering org is doing something. It's just another source of frustration.