Obvious News Shocker
Some descisions made at any level of a company may have a negative effect on that company....
Wow, never saw that one coming. Ah, I get it, you spun this to specifically target Technical Debt. As opposed to incompetence debt, mismanagement debt, which all basically lead back to the same thing.
This is not something magically special to DevOps, or even development. The debt incurred by employees, managers and stupid decisions is not limited to technical, but hey, new Buzzwords, we gotta be on them...