Comment by nradov
13 days ago
It's not an ideal. There is an optimal level of technical debt to maximize shareholder value. Eliminating all technical debt makes no more sense than eliminating all financial debt. Used effectively, debt is a powerful lever. The trick lies in finding the optimal level based on incomplete information, and many corporate managers aren't very good at this.
By stating it should be zero, it is literally, by definition an ideal. That is not something you can decide on. Maximising shareholder value? Now, that is an ideal which is a root cause of many evils today.
Your claim of zero being the ideal level is not supported by any reliable data. You aren't qualified to make any statements about ideals.
I am not sure you see the irony in your own statements.