You need a plan to pay down technical debt - because it carries interest. In this case the interest is payed by slowing down the development of new features. Al

You need a plan to pay down technical debt - because it carries interest. In this case the interest is payed by slowing down the development of new features. Also, paying the interest, i.e. incurring slower and slower new feature development costs, doesn't touch the debt principle. This is why we adopted the concept of technical debt, the term encompasses much, more more than just "bad code."