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> changeable process

Indeed. One sentence in TFA stands out

"As you adapt from cowboy to drone..."

Systemantics thinkers (Gall) would say that optionally you can move the other way too. In fact that happens when old systems are broken up into gangs of cowboys (much apropos DOGE etc). Only bad systems are ones that "cast themselves in stone". We prefer modular systems of smaller systems and if you put a process in place, it should be as easy to remove, adapt or replace that process.

SE tells us, never build highly coupled systems where changing one small bit causes problems in unrelated subsystems.

All this is to say there are such things as "flexible systems", which are designed to be more like cowboys than steel machines. A good example is an "operating system", where the essential purview is to frictionlessly run other systems. Parts can be set running, and just as easily terminated if they don't work, need bypassing, or the org grows.