The point is, you build a process that encourages the outcome you want. A six-week release cycle makes it easier to do the right thing. Even with the six week cycle, we do this, with const generics being the latest example. But it's much, much easier to say "hey it's just six more weeks" than "hey it's just three more years," not just on the folks making the decision, but on the folks doing the work, and on the folks excited to use the feature.

> shipping less frequently encourages features to be shipped fully baked and matured,

Right, but this is just a view. A significant part of the industry believes that shipping less frequently discourages this. We've found that shipping more frequently allows us to take our time and fully bake and mature features in Rust.