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by wrs 590 days ago
It was a venerable on-prem application done in classic three-tier architecture (VB.NET client, app server, and database). It was deployed on a regular basis to thousands of locations (one deploy per location) and was critical to a business with 11-digit revenue.

So yeah, cumbersome, but established, and huge downside risk to messing with the status quo. It was basically Git applied on top of an existing “copy the source” release process.