[bcarroll22]

I can dig this.

That said, if a mechanic says “if you don’t get this repair your tailpipe is gonna fall off” and you say “nah let’s risk it”, you’re not gonna go back to him when it falls off and say “wow I can’t believe you let me drive my car until the tailpipe fell off, you should’ve done better!”

If, however, a dev team says “hey guys, if we don’t fix this tech debt we’re gonna run into some perf issues and the site may crash” it’s a lot more likely they’ll come back and still find a way to blame the dev team when the product inevitably does crash or really struggle to deliver results.

Again, like my other comments say, this could be completely anecdotal on my part and totally greener grass thinking on my part, but it definitely does feel like this is the way the product teams I’ve worked with behave toward development teams.