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Rollback time has three parts and the human decision step is usually the largest. Automated rollback triggered by SLO burn removes that latency entirely, which is why progressive delivery tooling ties rollback to metric thresholds rather than to a human noticing a dashboard. Pricing the delay in revenue per minute is what usually justifies building that automation.
Rollback budget
total = detect + decide + execute; exposure = total x revenue per minute
For clear signals such as error-rate spikes, yes. Automated rollback with a manual override is faster and more reliable than paging a human to make an obvious call.
When the change cannot be reverted cleanly — an irreversible migration or a third-party state change. That is an argument for designing changes to be reversible rather than for slow rollbacks.