I find this part surprising - "Agile Development Didn’t Pay". It would be interesting to see the source data and see what kind of companies are saying this. I feel like 'agile' is shoehorned into large enterprises sometimes where it really only means "two week sprints and standups" but really, it's still waterfall.
Exactly the same situation -- the actual unit tests are fast but when we run our integration tests it takes (relatively) forever. Which is a shame as it causes the developers to run the full test suite a lot less often than they should, and we end up catching problems right before we expected to be able to push code.
Have you tried using any tools to speed up your integration tests? Something like Typemock Isolator which can run only the relevant tests during the build or IncrediBuild which can use unused network resources to speed up slow builds.
I also think it's like a first date in that if it doesn't seem like a match you shouldn't try to change your entire personality in order to be a better fit. Date a bunch at first, and if everyone rejects you that's when you should think about changing.
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