Why does it take longer to ship a general fix / update? They don’t do a full regression for the studies fix? Update mechanism doesn’t check for updates as often? I couldn’t find any information on this yet but would love to know.
Presumably the testing burden for a preference update using Normandy is smaller, as (and I’m guessing wildly here) fewer things can be altered with Normandy and therefore testing can be simplified to exclude, for made-up example, “the code-signed binary can be executed on all platforms”.