How do you balance tech debt and features?

The balance between technical debt and developing new features is achieved through prioritization and planning:

• Regularly assess technical debt: how it affects stability, development speed, and product quality.
• Include tasks to reduce technical debt in sprints to prevent problems from accumulating.
• Evaluate the business value of new features and their impact on product growth.
• Use metrics and user feedback to make decisions.
• Communicate with the team and stakeholders to find a compromise.

For example, allocate 20-30% of the team's time to refactoring and code improvement, and the rest to new features to maintain quality and develop the product simultaneously.