This is still looking at it from a developer's or contributor's point of view. Developer velocity has no practical impact on the user experience. In a way, the constant addition of features or tweaks to the user experience is a net negative, since the user has to re-learn how to do things in the app.

This also makes the assumption that since there are few automated tests, that there are no tests done on a build at all. I disagree that it is a valid assumption. Most security vulnerabilities are not found by unit or functional tests, but instead by linting and code reviews.