Scenario
You are the Engineering Manager for a B2B staffing platform shipping a high-priority candidate matching release. The fastest path uses older services and a few shortcuts, but that choice will make future changes harder and debugging more expensive. Product wants the release this quarter, sales has already committed it to prospects, and the platform team is warning that the codebase is already fragile.
Question
How do you think about technical debt versus long-term maintainability?
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