I've always thought that 'debt' is a poor analogy. Systems get replaced / rewritten / superseded / thrown in the bin... all time, and that is where the debt an

I've always thought that 'debt' is a poor analogy. Systems get replaced / rewritten / superseded / thrown in the bin... all time, and that is where the debt analogy fails. Its obviously semantics, and I'm not advocating sloppy programming / architecture, but the term is both inaccurate and leads people to blinkered thinking.