This is an instance of an abstract pattern I've observed almost every day over my several decades in this industry: people imposing processes, techniques, tools

This is an instance of an abstract pattern I've observed almost every day over my several decades in this industry: people imposing processes, techniques, tools, approaches, architectures, that appear to be inappropriate to the work at hand. A common factor is that the people doing the imposing are not experienced in doing the kind of work they're targeting. Sometimes the thing they're imposing was appropriate in some other context, but not in the current one (e.g. it works at Google but only because they have CI and RCS tools we don't have). Sometimes there's a kernel of truth to the thing, but that got lost in translation (e.g. have daily meetings, but we don't know the purpose of those meetings). The pervasive vibe is of people not thinking too much about what they're asking others to do, and not having any direct experience of the thing they're trying to control.