Wasn't "Agile" development supposed to fix this, by keeping team sizes small and workflows as simple and iterative as possible? AIUI, the fabled "two-pizzas team" size was intended as an upper bound for the most complex projects only, not as the new normal.

(The "test everything" culture was also AIUI in the service of quick iteration; the first versions of Agile are from the early 2000s when dynamic languages were starting to get popular and there wasn't really any kind of static analysis.)