I agree, but I think this kind of "ad absurdum" endpoint is principally an organisational problem. Companies are hard. They have histories. Different people wi

I agree, but I think this kind of "ad absurdum" endpoint is principally an organisational problem. Companies are hard. They have histories. Different people with opposing ideas. Dissonance between how the company operates and how it operates on paper. Conflicting personal interests, politics. Stories they tell... They need some sort of rough-cut ideology, system or whatnot. A way of adjudicating right or wrong. That way arguments can be settled. People can be onboarded more easily. The company's decisions become more legible. A simple requirement to report on important decisions, the choices available and reasoning behind the choice... stuff like this has consequences. An ethos is more flexible than a ruleset, and provides a way of navigating organisational issues. People working on their own or in small autonomous groups don't tend to go overboard as easily.