the age of Move Fast and Break Things is over, and we now enter an age of Move Slow Within Broken Things
I thought I saw an xkcd comic about tech debt that showed it as uncleared material in a mine shaft that traps you when you strike water. I saw OP here and immediately thought of Kessler syndrome.
Putting these ideas together now (i won't be at all surprised if I've missed by a wide margin, but) i think I'm recognizing Kessler syndrome as a literal, physical form of tech debt