> I've never seen a company that was a., successful and b., prioritizing tech debt/upkeep at the same time. Maybe you have only worked in start ups? I have cer

> I've never seen a company that was a., successful and b., prioritizing tech debt/upkeep at the same time. Maybe you have only worked in start ups? I have certainly seen products fail or partially fail because of tech debt. One product was extremely unproductive to work on because of a patched together architecture. To the extent that bugs were introduced easily but took so long to turn around that customers left the product and told us that was the reason.