Sounds to me that the artificial crunch is the problem. And if you have the capability to deploy quickly, I don’t see any value in sprints they tend to artificially delay deployments, reviews or retrospectives. If something needs talking about, don’t wait for a ceremony in a week and a half when everyone has forgotten about it.

I’ve been part of teams working this way without sprints and artificial crunch on mature and large scale services, so it really isn’t a MVP/startup only deal…