Transition to Continuous Delivery

HI everyone
As part of the plans to transition to Continuous Delivery, we're considering changing the Release cycle slightly in order to prove that we no longer need such a heavy weight manual validation stage.
This would involve removing the Alpha (and possibly even the Beta) stage in the Jan 2021 Release and July 2021 if we're not already migrated to Continuous.
We would therefore gain an extra few weeks of content authoring, making us able to provide more content in each release cycle, and so would lock down in mid December instead of November.
Obviously there is a minor risk that it could have an impact on the quality of the final Release package, but analysis of the previous few cycles shows that most issues are found and fixed within the first validation period, and that we've now evolved beyond the need for so many gateways. This risk should therefore be relatively negligible, compared to the benefit of the gain in content coverage.
Please can you provide feedback on this asap, so that we can feed it into the discussions over the next few weeks?
Thanks very much!
Andrew