1. Entrenched in-company interests create friction by just existing - Ops/Risk/Support/Arch/ProcessEng. Staffing is on the knifes edge, no buffer. And so going fast $here makes you slow $there. 2. Customers expect defect-free software, and compromising quality == churn == revenue loss. 3. Token costs are already astronomical, and everyone who could already cut headcount. 4. Mythos scared the shit out of everyone, and every last cent is allocated to Enterprise Risk (another entrenched friction).

It’s a lose/lose proposition for every software company with more than three management layers. We're frozen in place.