[bryanlarsen]

Exactly.

I've seen developers reduce technical debt in a way that others consider to be an increase in technical debt.

One developer can add abstractions, modularity and extensibility to a code to reduce technical debt.

Another developer can strip out unneeded abstractions, modularity and extensibility to reduce technical debt.

[ClumsyPilot]

Most developers cannot know ahead of time if a goven piece of code needs to be entensible.

Often noone does