Between the time a developer commits code to the repository and the time it runs in production, code is a pure liability. Undeployed code is unfinished inventory. It has unknown bugs. It may break scaling or cause production downtime. It might be a great implementation of a feature nobody wants. Until you push it to production, you can’t be sure. The idea of continuous deployment is to reduce that delay as much as possible to minimize the liability of undeployed code.
