Our team's release process could drive a person mad.
Every release eats at least half a day, and that's before counting the prep. It started because another team messed up a release once, so the department added a rule: every release procedure and detail has to be written into a sheet and sent to another group for review. Except nobody reads it. They wouldn't understand why we release the way we do anyway.
So now a release starts at 1 p.m. and, if you're lucky, you're done by 5.
The frustrating part is that the department has already bolted plenty of new steps onto this process. The root problem hasn't moved at all. What has moved is the cost to the engineers doing it, and automation has only gotten harder. Things really do run backwards sometimes: the problems manual releases cause could be cut down with automation, and instead someone always insists on a human forcing it through by hand.