Agreed but by the same token your company/software from 1990 would probably not be around in 2000.
I get the impression "Maserati problems" (not quibbling about the definition, but from a "should I care about this" stance) are those for which the cost of focusing on them now is greater in impact terms than leaving it until later.
Y2K was probably a Maserati problem at the time because if your software was going to be around for 10 years, the profits from it should easily cover the maintenance task of resolving the bug.
I get the impression "Maserati problems" (not quibbling about the definition, but from a "should I care about this" stance) are those for which the cost of focusing on them now is greater in impact terms than leaving it until later.
Y2K was probably a Maserati problem at the time because if your software was going to be around for 10 years, the profits from it should easily cover the maintenance task of resolving the bug.