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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Backlogs are great. Sometimes while working on prioritized tasks the depriorized backlog tasks are made irrelevant and thus you never have to do them and you don't waste effort. Call it strategic deprioritization or perhaps even tactical laziness.