Code is not technical debt

https://gavinhoward.com/2023/12/code-is-not-technical-debt/

A response to All code is technical debt, arguing that code is an asset, though it may come with attached liabilities where:

• it does not match the problem it's trying to solve
• its model does not match the model of its users and programmers
• the code's interfaces don't match the code's internal model
• there is more code than necessary to solve the problem

I don't think I wholly agree, but I