Maintainability debt gets expensive when work runs through it. Match code churn against the roadmap to decide what to refactor and what to leave alone.
That would only be true if you were a clearvoyant which can predict which part of the code will change and which not. Which in turn would require to know which external requirements will change or not.
That would only be true if you were a clearvoyant which can predict which part of the code will change and which not. Which in turn would require to know which external requirements will change or not.