which they threw away because it had little or no customer value It's easier to type that sentence though than it is to actually come to that conclusion. Asses

which they threw away because it had little or no customer value It's easier to type that sentence though than it is to actually come to that conclusion. Assessing customer value, or even better, which customer between two competing customers matters more is the hard part. You don't solve technical debt with technical decisions, as it's a symptom of business process scope creep. Unnecessary code is not technical debt. Code supporting unnecessary process is technical debt.