I like the sentiment, but you can have quality, well architected software that’s pleasure to work in, and it being completely useless/obsolete to customers. Value != quality.

I think software quality (and all the symptoms discussed in the post) are to do with how quickly the software can be changed: Lower tech debt results in software that’s quick to change to new requirements, or change in business domain. It’s also important to realise that just like with performance, you get diminishing returns at very high levels