Hmmm.

My tomorrow understanding may be worst than that of today. Time passing is no guarantee for elevated intelligence.

Time to live for said solution is a practical factor that could and should settle the complexity issue of the solution, which may also turn into exploratory curiosity-enhanced over engineered solution.

Finally, all solutions have technical debts. Unavoidably sublime. We just choose to look the other way in most cases.

This popped up on a casual search:

https://medium.com/@antonellosemeraro/technical-debt-is-not-...

(paywalled, looks like a decent and recent writeup from what I can see of it, and the essence is above the fold).

Not sure why Ward Cunningham missed this, I expect in corporate finance (not stock trading) options trading (for profit, not hedging) isn't common.