That would solve a problem I saw at a previous job: new features would be described as technical debt, so they could take up tech debt time at the expense of _real_ debt.
My team spends 80% of our time paying down tech debt...by building a new system that will let us throw away the old system later this year, I mean next year, I mean in 2 years, I mean when the last zombie client with no staffing migrates off of it.
That would solve a problem I saw at a previous job: new features would be described as technical debt, so they could take up tech debt time at the expense of _real_ debt.