The process is there to squeeze out some value of out a bunch mediocre and unmotivated people that constitute most teams in most companies. I've worked in teams

The process is there to squeeze out some value of out a bunch mediocre and unmotivated people that constitute most teams in most companies. I've worked in teams without much of a process and frankly, the damage that even one incompetent developer can do to the code base is really something that can justify code reviews and automated testing. Esp. if the product is a mature cash cow for the company. BTW if you want to work differently, maybe early stage (pre-VC) startups are for you? They usually don't have time and money for process - no code reviews, no CI/CD, few tests. Also, game industry doesn't do any of that as far as I know (they have a lot of other issues though).