[pixl97]

Getting rid of processes is in most industries far, far, far more difficult than you can imagine.

Most of the time you think you can get rid of the problem, it just means you don't understand what the "real problem" is. This is Chesterton's Fence in practice. Quite often when you have this 'silly process', it's about visibility into that process for auditing by others and ensuring legal compliance.

And for this reason it will always bet exponentially easier to provide a drop in replacement for a process then attempting to understand the system it exists in.