It happens when devs and businesses reach a point of tolerant negligence w.r.t their codebases. I suspect this is true for the vast majority of codebases, a "la

It happens when devs and businesses reach a point of tolerant negligence w.r.t their codebases. I suspect this is true for the vast majority of codebases, a "labor of love" codebase in the enterprise is a unicorn. Remember not every project is for some amazing product, with a great agile way of working. Some projects are a withdrawals system internal to an insurance company, for example. No one gives a shit there. Motivating for any kind of tech debt work on such a project is unlikely to be met with approval, and all the devs who really care about such things will likely have left the project long ago.