> In the best case, they lead to accumulating inefficiencies (technical debt) as engineers work around them If that's what technical debt ever amounted to, the

> In the best case, they lead to accumulating inefficiencies (technical debt) as engineers work around them If that's what technical debt ever amounted to, then the average software developer is stupid, because he doesn't know how to innovate and improve within the meta-system he's functioning in. It's not hard to restructure things when inefficiency becomes a problem. Just do it. Instead of lionizing technical debt as some sort of boogeyman demon around the Internet forums water coolers.