[Pamar]

It was a way to illustrate the metaphor: I am just as "new to the legal system" as I am at asbestos removal or car repairing... but I have enough experience with software development to understand why "tech debt" is a pretty hard concept to sell to business.

In any case my point is not "there is no tech debt if you created it yourself" it is more about "from the point of view of business tech debt is not something they care about: it is sonething they expect to just be sorted out transparently or that should not even happen". After all, Microsoft never bills them for "tech debt", it just ask them to reboot to update their laptops, no?

I am not saying this is fair, or right. I am just trying to explain why mentioning "tech debt" falls on deaf ears.