How hard is something to understand? How hard is it to operate? How often does it fail? How hard is it to change? How much time is spent in toil? These que

How hard is something to understand? How hard is it to operate? How often does it fail? How hard is it to change? How much time is spent in toil? These questions underpin the idea of debt. While there is no standard way to measure, I think almost any developer can look at code and either be impressed by its elegance or disgusted by its depravity.