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My thoughts on it are: as a developer, if you flag the issue for your management, and they want to move forward, then you've done your part.
Maybe put an extra comment in the code for posterity's sake.
It's not ultimately your problem and what else are you going to do? Work unpaid nights and weekends to fix it for some guy who might run into a problem 8 years from now?
It's a balance, but too many people don't even flag it to management because they're lazy and they write shit and ship it to get it off their own plate.
Now, if management says ship it anyway it's a balance of you as a developer making sure they understand they're throwing this technical debt on the credit card and it may (probably) need to be paid off later. If you fail to articulate the interest that'll be due later then you didn't do enough or management is bad.
You shouldt work unpaid to fix it, but sometimes you should just do it right even if it takes longer because it's how it should be done.