I agree with the points made. I would add one caveat: The culture of your work environment has a huge bearing on these decisions. Reminds me of something I rea

I agree with the points made. I would add one caveat: The culture of your work environment has a huge bearing on these decisions. Reminds me of something I read, like an illegal life tip; Don't fix an unknown problem because if it goes wrong people often won't understand or care about your good intentions and you will end up with blame (blame culture). Whereas if a problem where to occur on production, and you were to fix it, well then you would be "hero". Not trying to advocate for any particular way but just trying to reframe the question in more of a political/human way as opposed to an engineering one.