a hundred times this. Technical debt is painful on all levels. It makes things falling apart more likely, it makes refactoring more painful, and it adds cogniti

a hundred times this. Technical debt is painful on all levels. It makes things falling apart more likely, it makes refactoring more painful, and it adds cognitive load. The argument that you can absorb technical debt only really works if you plan on an aquihire to save yourself, because if not it's very likely you'll have to clean it up (and you'll have paid a decent amount of interest on it). It's not like good code and code that's easy to write are two ends of a line.