"We can have that new release deployed in about 6-8 weeks."
It's not an operational capacity or competency issue for this org, it's the result of hours worth of "sync" or "review" meetings with no discernible agenda, negotiating maintenance windows, facilitating approvals from a dozen or more parties who don't even comprehend what they're approving, and weeks of manual acceptance testing.
On the other extreme, in past roles at different orgs, I've been on teams doing multiple deployments to production every day, both on the dev and ops sides.
I find it exhausting and soul crushing being completely untrusted because of the mistakes made by people who left the org years before I started.