I think it comes back to Parkinson's law of triviality (something we call "bike shed"). People get extremely hung up on the menial or irrelevant aspects of a ta

I think it comes back to Parkinson's law of triviality (something we call "bike shed"). People get extremely hung up on the menial or irrelevant aspects of a taks or project - processes are something everyone can weigh in on, making the scope of chaning processes nearly impossible especially if the company already has a consensus against change, or requires entire consensus to ever actually apply changes. Sometimes, this is the case because processes are successfully concealing how little work is being done.