A pragmatic look at the hidden costs, the small-batch myth, and why user trust matters more than deploy frequency. I. Introduction "CI/CD will save you money. It will make your team faster. It will eliminate bugs. It is the only way to build modern software." We've all heard this. The industry preaches CI/CD as a universal solution. Every conference talk, every DevOps blog post, every vendor pitch tells you the same thing: adopt CI/CD or be left behind. But is it...