SURE

Let's say you have a leaking pipe at home. You notice that your furniture is being harmed by water that is collecting on the floor. You clean up the water and set a bucket underneath the leak to catch the drips. You don't, however, repair the leaky pipe itself.

The leaky pipe is the primary culprit in this situation. You have not resolved the root problem by just treating the visible symptoms (the water damage). The leak will therefore continue to show up in different ways. For instance, the pouring water in the bucket could draw bugs or encourage the growth of mould in your house.

If you merely deal with the symptoms and ignore the leaky pipe's fundamental cause, the issue will continue to have detrimental effects in various ways. This also holds true when trying to cure a disease's symptoms without treating its underlying cause or when attempting to fix a software defect without dealing with the underlying code problem.