That's really reassuring to hear. Whenever I say we should spend time on tech debt it's always greeted with "we can worry about that later when we're really successful" as if there will suddenly be an opportunity to completely rewrite everything (because that's what it will take).
Yeah, the idea that tech debt doesn't matter and can just be fixed later is the biggest bullshit myth out there in tech land. The thing is, no one notices or writes about when a startup does an "underwater sale", which is typically an investment firm's portfolio company (company they already own) buying up a competitor for less than the company was worth on the last round, done usually in order to buy the customers, staff, or IP. It happens tons. It's a "cut bait" scenario (i.e. let's lose less now instead of everything later) for the selling company/owners and is usually a result of technical debt.
That's really reassuring to hear. Whenever I say we should spend time on tech debt it's always greeted with "we can worry about that later when we're really successful" as if there will suddenly be an opportunity to completely rewrite everything (because that's what it will take).