Being a production system doesn't make it a priority.

> A team with a broken development pipeline can’t produce software, and must treat this as a production outage.

While I sympathize, I can't go that far. An "outage" means user- or stakeholder-facing.

To the extent that a developer is a stakeholder (surprisingly common) you might be right, and they would prioritize such processes.

Increasingly though founders and executive team are non-technical and simply don't care until it shows up on a graph that piques their interest (the ones with $ somewhere).