I wholeheartedly agree! Companies that delay tackling technical debt still ship features, they get slower and more error prone development as time passes. As they still keep shipping they can fail to see how much faster they'd be shipping 6 months down the line if they tackle debt which adds weeks to each feature being developed.

I've expanded on these thoughts before on my blog about technical debt inflation if anyone is interested https://scalabilitysolved.com/technical-debt-inflation/