Indeed, it does feel wrong because it is, technically, wrong. The intent of a "no blame culture" however is to find a new sweet spot on the myriad of tradeoffs

Indeed, it does feel wrong because it is, technically, wrong. The intent of a "no blame culture" however is to find a new sweet spot on the myriad of tradeoffs an engineering organization does, as an many paradigm shifts we do, it is accompanying with a certain amount of bullshit-sounding maxims meant to be thought provoking and dislodge the readers from their suboptimal local maximums.