> Is that technical debt? ... So I would say that's not really a tech debt, just a technical tradeoff that was made. Well, I'd still call that technical debt.

> Is that technical debt? ... So I would say that's not really a tech debt, just a technical tradeoff that was made. Well, I'd still call that technical debt. All debt is a tradeoff, and sometimes debt is worth it (or, at least, is judged to be worth it at the time the debt is taken on). In this case, it might be deemed worth it, and reasonably so, especially if there simply aren't enough competitors that this would make a difference at the margin, or if it's simply not feasible for any competitor to implement that same feature in the same time frame with the same amount of developer resources and make it perform faster.