It really isn't.

A TODO item that you feel does not justify a ticket is just a subjective nice-to-have expressed as noise/a declaration of intent with no intention to deliver, which ultimately only results in noise.

It's not even technical debt. At most, it's a pledge to goldplate something without being able to argue any tangible upside.

> A few bytes is nothing compared to Management's roadmap, so it gets ignored.

Bytes are irrelevant. Tickets also cost bytes. Tickets also track rationale and context. What really matters is allocated resources in order to deliver value.

The only reason your TODO item gets ignored is because the potential value it promises does not justify allocating resources to it.

People need to be smart about how they invest their time and effort. Tracking vague tasks deemed unnecessary or useless in a separate out-of-band source of info is not productive and ends up only creating noise and distractions.