[samontar]

That’s what I feel too. It’s like in The Goal by Eli Goldratt. The machinery of building product is all cost. Inventory is cost. Machinery is cost. Only finished sold product is revenue.

Analogously, code is cost, infra is cost, only our sold product is revenue.

A thing I did not understand for a long time is the effect this has on value. Something that produces a low value over a long time may well have been value-negative over the period because of the hidden carrying cost.