Perhaps another important factor is adaptability. For example, pipeline ran pytest which used coverage.py. The latter library decided to change the format of t

Perhaps another important factor is adaptability. For example, pipeline ran pytest which used coverage.py. The latter library decided to change the format of the `. coveragerc` which in turn caused pytest to fail, which blocked MRs because of course pytest failure means it cannot be merged. An adaptive pipeline would allow developers to ignore this error.