[cptskippy]

> With great power comes great responsibility.

And in an environment where staff are a cost optimization and not everyone is a 10x coder or engineer, there will be individuals in power who are not as responsible as you would like.

So it's better to have a system where you limit one individual's ability to cause harm rather than amplify it.

[erikerikson]

Automated validation has always seemed to catch that sort of risk just fine.

[cptskippy]

In an environment where staff are a cost optimization, tech debt and things like CI/CD are luxuries. Much of it will be half baked or poorly implemented. Automation of unit tests and validation are going to be afterthoughts at best.