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this is simpler than it sounds - the process trumps any engineering stardom. the process is king. the process is love, the process is life, quite literally. getting any change in there isn't so much fine engineering as it is wrestling with layers and layers of process, where every layer has been added due to a monumental f-up in the past. it's an environment where getting any change committed into a repository usually takes weeks, unless one of processes for sidestepping the process is invoked.