> slower release and sale cycles

Sales are out of their control.

If there’s a market for quality and you don’t have it, sales are going down no matter what the PHB wants.

If there’s not, watch out for the vibe-coded competitor.

Buggy slop products will burn buyers and then people will buy less. The very-early-80s video game companies shoveled out slop, including a few games that wouldn't even launch. Which led to the Great Video Game Crash of 1983.