The discussion highlights how slow deployment processes can lead to unnecessary meetings, which may hinder productivity. One comment mentions the slowness of CloudFormation as a contributing factor, emphasizing the advantages of microservices that enable more frequent and scalable deployments. Another user notes a past experience where a manager hindered development progress, indicating a potential process problem. The evolution of development practices towards microservices is seen as a solution to manage deployments efficiently, minimizing the effects of tightly coupled dependencies in software architecture.