In engineering, we’re used to the idea of technical debt. We accept that sometimes we make tradeoffs for the sake of speed or simplicity - knowing we’re taking on some future cost that we’ll need to pay down eventually. Currently, we even bake this into out planning; we carve out 20% of our time for paying down tech debt and I often wonder if this is enough. Still though, there’s some acknowledgment that if you never address tech debt it eventually grinds progress to a halt.