I'd also be interested to hear why it was the right choice still? But, you hit on a good point with all of the bootstrapping which needs to be repeated. And the

I'd also be interested to hear why it was the right choice still? But, you hit on a good point with all of the bootstrapping which needs to be repeated. And then with each subsequent change you make to your pipelines (e.g. testing frameworks) either becomes inconsistent or you have to apple the same changes in N places instead of 1.