[FridgeSeal]

> Machine learning models which can be deployed effortlessly and operate unattended are far more likely to achieve commercial objectives.

Likeliness of achieving commercial objectives is tied to the commercial usefulness and accuracy of your analysis and predictions, not the ease of deployment, or-even more curiously-ability to be left unattended.

[IanCal]

It's surely not a particularly contentious point that hard to deploy systems that require lots of attention to keep running are less likely to achieve commercial objectives.

Just like your website being stable and easy to update helps your business use it to make money. Of course it also needs to be tied to commercial usefulness.

[joelschw]

This is a wider point for anyone looking to take advantage of machine learning, but reproducibility is also a problem which needs to be catered for.