I'm with you. I tend to see little discussion about long term value. "Long term value" includes "making it less expensive to add features." At my current compa

I'm with you. I tend to see little discussion about long term value. "Long term value" includes "making it less expensive to add features." At my current company, we would run in circles chasing the same bugs because of spaghetti code plus competing business requirements. The answer to "why do new features take so long?" was fairly straightforward. We were able to argue for a rewrite partially on the grounds of the speed of future enhancements. During the rewrite, it has been amazing to several team members (juniors, management) at how easy it is to track changing requirements when there's good infrastructure and when solutions are kept simple.