> There are many organizations (we talk to them) which have plans and applies that take 5 - 10s of minutes, some even close to an hour. That's a problem. We talked to one customer that a dev can make a change in the morning and depending on the week might have to wait until the next day to get their plan, and then another day to apply it

That's us. Especially because our teams are distributed across NA/Eastern Europe/Japan. So getting a lock is a problem because you have to wait for someone else to finish, then getting the required reviews is a problem because you have to wait for people from other timezones to come on, then by the time you're ready to re-plan after the reviews someone else has taken the lock, then you have to wait for them,...