What I always guessed: if you don't want to bite the bullet of trusting SRE scripters (with an s) to the role of building the CD that actually makes sense for y

What I always guessed: if you don't want to bite the bullet of trusting SRE scripters (with an s) to the role of building the CD that actually makes sense for your use case, why do you expect some random company will have more of your interest at heart? At least with Joe's python deployment scripts, Jane can do a code review. So much of cloud CI/CD lingo translates to "believe in magic, and also our bigness-based authority" when actually proper software deploys itself properly without making a fuss or glueing your fingers with sticky Yaml...