[morelisp]

The audit trail likely represents actual risk reduction of someone undoing or misunderstanding the change later, since the change has no meaning outside the context of the request.

"Fixing preexisting errors that violate new company policy" also arguably involves real risk reduction; you gotta do that work sometime, and if everyone in the company agrees the time is now, the best time is now.

Using Marge instead of Homer is not "risk reduction" but presumably testing accounting close is also critical.

Tony's request is also reasonable, unless you want to leave the next dev in the same shithole you were in re. the wiki state.