I guess that's fair, I'm probably coming into this having only seen it done a certain way and blind to other possibilities.
That being said, it would take a lot to convince me a standard CI/CD pipeline is not worth the investment. My only experience with non CI/CD deployment process was a very manual process at a startup, then when I saw my first CI/CD it felt like magic.
A good old makefile is a CI/CD pipeline. All the new fangled tools are re-inventing a lot of capabilities make already has. I blame the new kids on the block who have only ever known Windows :-)
That being said, it would take a lot to convince me a standard CI/CD pipeline is not worth the investment. My only experience with non CI/CD deployment process was a very manual process at a startup, then when I saw my first CI/CD it felt like magic.