[gmadsen]

I think you are taking it personally, tech debt usually isn't the fault of individual engineers. It is leadership who chooses to value initial short term speed over extensibility, maintainability, etc.

sometimes it is obvious to the engineer that this will cause problems in a few months, but the first deadline is in a few days, and that's all leadership cares about.

[lobocinza]

This is something that I see "daily" currently working as a contractor on web development. Frameworks like Bootstrap are used to quickly/cheaply deploy a site but by not doing things "properly" from the beginning it creates a debt to be paid later with compounds.

I dislike working with Bootstrap projects but I understand that "getting into debt" sometimes is unavoidable. And debt isn't necessarily a bad thing.