[baroomba]

I think the harm done by long, painful, dangerous releases and complex onboarding or different experiences and expectations for how to effectively test and get a good dev feedback loop going in various components of a system (usually these things occur together, because the same things that cause the latter also cause the painful, slow, dangerous releases) is badly under-accounted for. It murders agility yet companies wander their way into it in the name of agility then don't ever fix it because the fix is slow and dangerous since everything is slow and dangerous.

[EDIT] to be clear, quick painful dangerous releases are no better, and (pretty much necessarily) come with the same pain in onboarding, jumping between repos/projects, undocumented "oh sometimes you have to re-install that to get it going" works-on-my-machine bullshit, getting a good feedback loop going, et c.