To me, it sounds like they think it will eventually lead to jerry-rigging or having to do makeshift alterations to that platform, just to make it work or to keep it running in some reasonable manner (with a limp, very likely).

Rautalankaviritys is often literally jerry-rigging something with a wire just to keep it in one piece for a while. Usually until you may (or may not) replace it with a better or the proper solution that you could/should have used or done in the first place.
Can refer to (usually) badly done, quick makeshift repairs.

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And indeed, in many cases it doesn't mean the literal use of wire for jerry-rigging, of course, but just having to use more and more resources and one support feature after another, just to keep Item X working even at a basic level.