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by mannykannot 1785 days ago
The examples you give look more like inefficient resource (developer time) allocation - AKA Yak Shaving - rather than technical debt.

Nevertheless, people doing things for just technical reasons does sometimes create technical debt, as when doing so over-complicates the implementation to no observable end. So? If anything, these cases stand as counter-examples to the author's argument that technical debt is not technical.