OK, so this is getting contentious, but it seems to me you're not up to speed with industry studies. Every study of continuous delivery suggests it improves qu

OK, so this is getting contentious, but it seems to me you're not up to speed with industry studies. Every study of continuous delivery suggests it improves quality by finding bugs earlier (because it has continuous integration - automated and rigorous testing to help identify unintended regressions - as a dependency), and reducing MTTR when undetected bugs do occur, because releasing fixes is quick and standardised. I'll refer you to the book in my comment above which demonstrates this with data collected from thousands of companies. If you don't understand the reasons behind this, you're not going to understand why any of the other things lead to safer software, released earlier, and producing more value in the short, medium and long terms. So we should stop here. I'd strongly encourage you to start by reading Accelerate and then come back and take another swing at it if you want, but given your current perspective - which sounds highly authoritarian, cynical, and divorced from data collected over a wide range of industry contexts - there's no point in us discussing this further.