[JoeAltmaier]

I agree, a good set of rules is helpful.

But it only takes one person to ball up the whole process. Worse if they're some self-important early hire, promoted above their skills and full of idealism. Nobody will tell them to stfu. The tools enable them, since the process won't proceed until they hit a magic button.

I've suffered under this special kind of gatekeeping autocrat. My son has on several occasions. We've both left jobs in part because of it.