[heisenbit]

>> spend days setting up a CI/CD pipeline > This should/does take minutes

Should if you discount tool selection, learning tools, managing access control, deal with technical and organization imposed constraints, documentation and alignment across the team.

[nickelpro]

All of those things are easy. If they're not easy you have organizational problems that are slowing down development unnecessarily.

Your team has a CI system of choice, plugging a new thing into that CI system should be trivial, if it's not you're doing CI very poorly.

Hard-to-use is a bug.