You’d love _The Unicorn Project_ if you haven’t read it. I highly recommend it, and it’s a story around roughly the same journey.
https://www.amazon.com/Unicorn-Project-Developers-Disruption...
https://www.amazon.com/Unicorn-Project-Developers-Disruption...
The gist of it is that reducing your time-to-production is one of the best investments you can make. It changes everything about how you build things.