You’re both conflating two issues. A solid fully automated CI/CD is table stakes for any professional project. Releasing on some particular cadence has little t

You’re both conflating two issues. A solid fully automated CI/CD is table stakes for any professional project. Releasing on some particular cadence has little to do with this aside from the fact that it isn’t possible without such automation. In many contexts I’d consider security and audit ability far more important than release pace, and even on personal projects you want the deployment to be reproducible and explicitly defined.