Switching a client site to automatic production deploys is rarely a decision anyone made. It was the platform default, left on, then defended later as philosophy. What it saves is a click and the awkward message asking a client to open the preview URL again. Both land on the developer. What it costs is the publish decision, handed to whoever merges next, with whatever the branch holds. On a product team that's fine. On client work the merger owns the code and the client owns the brand. Every host ships the fix. Netlify locks the published deploy. Vercel stages the push once you turn off auto-assigned production domains. Actions uses environment protection rules when the approver shouldn't be the author. If your live deploy turned out to be wrong right now, could you name the deploy ID you'd roll back to? https://www.duskolicanin.com/blog/manual-production-deploy-client-websites