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Technical debt, dependencies, migration costs, or simply not worth the effort?

As the saying goes, “there’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.”

A lot of companies move fast early on and leave technical decisions “for later.”
Then suddenly you’re dealing with painful cloud bills, fragile integrations, and systems nobody wants to touch.

Curious what “temporary fix” became the biggest long-term headache for your business.

In .NET projects with traffic spikes (campaign-driven), one recurring challenge is balancing CMS flexibility with performance.

In our experience across multiple projects, a few things tend to work well:
- moving toward a headless setup
- separating content delivery from core application logic
- tuning caching specifically for peak scenario

This usually helps keep things stable under load, while still giving editors flexibility.

However, the trade-off is noticeable: headless introduces extra complexity in development and content workflows.

In some cases it even feels like overengineering unless the load clearly justifies it.

Curious how others approach this:
when do you decide headless is actually worth it in .NET projects?