This looks like a description of a team or department that has no product owners and no requirements elicitation process. Quality aspects can be measured, and

This looks like a description of a team or department that has no product owners and no requirements elicitation process. Quality aspects can be measured, and resulting requirements will mitigate technical debt, unless you put that analysis so far down the backlog that it falls off. But all of that is management or 'team overhead' work.