One thing that baffles me in corporate IT is not just the snake pace of development but rather the fact that nobody seems to be bothered by the snake pace. There is zero effort to measure or speed things up. The only important thing is to be nice to everyone, any mention of productivity is considered hostile behaviour.

(For reference, I am talking about cases where a team of 5 devs takes 2-3 months to deliver a feature that would take a single independent developer maybe 2-3 days.)