Never assume malice where incompetence will suffice. I have worked on teams where we could not get the basics like a test or integration environments signed off

Never assume malice where incompetence will suffice. I have worked on teams where we could not get the basics like a test or integration environments signed off for months yet the managers expected us to go to production. Suffice to say production was also not signed off for half a yer and we had to improvise. I wonder is something similar was at play at CS?