Uh, no. If stage X is the bottleneck, it's immaterial how much you speed up stage Y.

You're assuming QA reviews won't be fully automated, and triggered from a CI pipeline.

	▲	oblio an hour ago \| parent [-]
		We can assume lots of things, but at some point the rubber must hit the road. What exactly are you using to back up this claim? > QA reviews [...] fully automated