There's a big difference between a conflict of interest with the company at large and a conflict between teams. For example at Google SRE vs SWE is set as a con

There's a big difference between a conflict of interest with the company at large and a conflict between teams. For example at Google SRE vs SWE is set as a conflict which mirrors reliability vs dev-velocity trade-offs. And that works OK because both are valued by the company and so by being the decision maker on that conflict leaders get given a way to adjust that trade-off. In an ideal world the "responsible innovation" team would represent one side of a "speed and scope" vs "PR, compliance and political considerations". So even though it goes against some of Meta's goals, it would be valued for achieving others. However sadly in practice any time a set-up like this has "money" on one side of the balance, it's always going to win. So the team was set up with an impossible task.