That is not an acceptable stance at an organisation of this size. Policies don't just exist on paper they're enforced through the process. No employee should j

That is not an acceptable stance at an organisation of this size. Policies don't just exist on paper they're enforced through the process. No employee should just be able to "cowboy" a solution like this. How does someone bypass the policy if the only way to get your code out is through pipeline? That pipeline required other individuals in the company to approve. Even the most basic regulation that Salesforce would have to deal with talks about speration of roles & responsibilities. Great, a dev can approve their code to go out but ops is responsible for deploying that out to production for this very reason.