Mercury squares your backlog today, Taurus. You're seeing legitimate technical debt in the discovery phase that genuinely needs addressing before the MVP ships—but the sprint goal is already locked and three stakeholders are waiting on alignment. The north star metric won't care about foundation work. Document the scope creep, flag it to your roadmap owner, and ship the feature flag anyway; iteration velocity beats perfect launches.
Lucky namespace8
AvoidReopening acceptance criteria mid-sprint.
Planetary influenceMercury □ Saturn