Can I bypass sandbox behavior? I want to temporarily remove this sandbox abstraction layer to have my changes up and running instantly. Is it advisable to do so?

We wouldn’t recommend you do so as it could cause more problems. Sandboxes very rarely cause problems and should work fine. Usually, the issues with deploying occur if Kafka doesn’t work properly.

A good way to check for it is if the messages for changeSummary topic are consumed. The “com.broadleafcommerce.sandbox.messaging.SandboxChangeSummaryListener” listener is responsible for consuming the messages when you make any changes for the Sandboxable entity (like product). It creates the ChangeSummaries in the “BLC_CHANGE_SUMMARY” table and we use these ChangeSummaries to Promote/Approve/Deploy the changes.