They decided that they don't need to handle it, justifications being: some debt is fine, it wont be anything huge, newer AI will handle the debt too eventually,

They decided that they don't need to handle it, justifications being: some debt is fine, it wont be anything huge, newer AI will handle the debt too eventually, and if the quality suffers, who cares, companies didn't care much about putting out shitty software before either. If crappy outsourced code was fine by modern standards for companies to churn, somewhat crap AI code will be too.