[JoeAltmaier]

Source control is necessary and simple, yes.

Code review, coding standards, required tests for everything, multiple stages of deployment - are not simple and can stall development. Done wrong they can sink a company.

It's easy to read the worst possible construction on what other people write here. It's never a good idea.

Btw I worked at a startup for 8 years. It was still a startup, depending on new investment to meet the monthly. In any case the described dev group was behaving in a way that used to be typical of startups. And even business units in larger organizations have runway.