The release checklist should be short enough to finish and specific enough to catch real mistakes. Long checklists become wallpaper. Vague checklists become superstition.
The strongest items usually sound plain: verify the migration, check the cache headers, confirm the rollback path, publish the known issues, and watch the first user path after deploy.
A quiet release is not lucky. It is a release where the team already decided what to do when the obvious things happen.