Not always. It's possible to bury yourself under so much technical debt that you can't get out from under it. To extend the metaphor, you can end up spending all your revenue merely servicing the debt and you cannot invest in paying it down. Your system can be so flawed that it hampers innovation, and requires ongoing costly maintenance and support which eats up all of your dev resources. The end result is that innovation is blocked off for you and if you run into a bump that reduces your review significantly for a while you can easily end up bankrupt.