Can’t you quantify the risks and add them to the inputs of those models then? Same with code quality you mentioned, you’re effectively saying that the ‘feel’ or intuition about the code quality and on when to act to do something about that code quality, is more accurate than if you’ve tried to quantify the code quality and then quantify its effects on everything else and then try to use that as one of the inputs of the model.

I’m just asking all that, I’m myself relying on intuition a lot, but I feel like I always have a communication barrier when all I have is intuition; i.e. how do I explain my reasoning/decisions if all the risks and potentially positive outcomes are just weights in my head (that’s what I imagine intuition is)