hard to categorize this, so flinging this to econ because everything’s econ, but was just curious if there’s ever been a deep dive into ethereum’s technical debt, up and down the stack – from cryptography to EVM and beyond. thinking what a methodology for doing a comprehensive technical debt audit might look like in the context of the ethereum stack.
with basic intuition that hidden debt compounds and is costly, dangerous, so on.
conversely, that mapping & paying down the debt improves maintainability, enables many more future improvements, etc.