On some teams, the backlog is just a way to track tech debt. Backlogs have a habit of growing indefinitely making it so lower priority tasks never get done.
Eithet way, tech debt is generally a bad thing. You’re just weighing it against other tasks, which are almost always more important.
You’re describing a backlog.
Debt is the stuff that never gets if the backlog.
On some teams, the backlog is just a way to track tech debt. Backlogs have a habit of growing indefinitely making it so lower priority tasks never get done.
Eithet way, tech debt is generally a bad thing. You’re just weighing it against other tasks, which are almost always more important.