Reminds me of the Peopleware story about cubicles being sold as modular furniture, but God help you if you actually reconfigure the cubicles to suit your team's organization.
It's like giving a kid a prebuilt Lego model and expecting them to never take it apart and build something else. No sane parent would expect that, I wonder why I keep all my creative ideas to myself and struggle with motivation problems and execution inititive...huh... can't be that I have zero agency granted to me in arranging my workspace. Heh