I'm mostly with you, but "it can wait until there aren't pressing feature demands" actually means "it won't happen until something completely breaks and it can

I'm mostly with you, but "it can wait until there aren't pressing feature demands" actually means "it won't happen until something completely breaks and it can no longer wait." There are always pressing feature demands. There are some things that are not just annoying to deal with, but actively impede development or encourage further hackery to make them manageable. Those things need to be fixed at some point, or there will be a real cost.