It's 17:40 on a Thursday. Sixty-one commits have landed since the last tag. CI is green. Someone in the release channel types: "are we good to ship?"
And then a strange thing happens. Nobody actually knows.
The person who asked doesn't know — they can't read sixty-one commits. The tech lead skims the compare view, sees nothing on fire, and says "should be fine." The QA engineer asks what changed and gets a link to a diff. Somebody ships it.
Most of the time it works. That's the problem. It works often enough that we never notice we replaced a decision with a mood.
The bottleneck moved and nobody moved with it
