+1. Another benefit of rapid releases is being able to release major refactors behind feature gates. This approach was taken when Mozilla shipped an mp4 parse

+1. Another benefit of rapid releases is being able to release major refactors behind feature gates. This approach was taken when Mozilla shipped an mp4 parser written in Rust [1]. By having rapid release cycles, they could spend a cycle or two verifying that the new component produced identical results "in the wild" before enabling it by default. If they had 1-year release they never would have been able to verify their implementation at such a scale. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/07/shipping-rust-in-firefox/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/07/shipping-rust-in-firefox/