[swiftcoder]

> I've worked at FAANG and enterprise companies and we managed to do it.

You have a very different experience to the rest of us, in that cases.

The big AWS services all had deployments measured in days - or even weeks (depending on how many regions they are deployed across). Facebook's monorepo took upwards of an hour just to get a PR through the merge queue. Both were notorious for "hand-jamming" critical fixes directly to production.