Yup. And the side channels / work arounds end up turning into "just release the fix and send me an email, we'll paper it up later" or "look I have no idea what

Yup. And the side channels / work arounds end up turning into "just release the fix and send me an email, we'll paper it up later" or "look I have no idea what your application does but I'll approve the change, just don't F* it up"