I think the costs of safety checks can be more pronounced in software than in other areas of business. It's not just that good hackers are particularly irritat

I think the costs of safety checks can be more pronounced in software than in other areas of business. It's not just that good hackers are particularly irritated by them -- they're irritated for a reason. A two-week release-process lag is so much worse than it might sound. If you can ship instantly, you can get feedback and make improvements rapidly, over and over. Sure, without a careful release process you might occasionally break things, but when you do you can fix them in minutes rather than weeks. When you insert release-process lag into that cycle, improvements that might have been made in a rapid series of releases over a day or two can take months. Sometimes those improvements just never get made, because no one is motivated to keep working on them for so long. In software, "stable" often means "unchanging", but only rarely means "high-quality".