Yes, there is such a thing as 'good code' that people should aspire to, or at least good practices when it comes to writing code. There are good teams that writ

Yes, there is such a thing as 'good code' that people should aspire to, or at least good practices when it comes to writing code. There are good teams that write code that has no or very little debt. It's also not just bad code that leads to technical debt, but bad decisions when it comes to code-related things like architecture, tech stack, which version of libraries / languages to use, etc.