Amen. Really silly things happen too, like you go through all this process and then months later some hotshot asks “wait, why are we doing this?” when launch is

Amen. Really silly things happen too, like you go through all this process and then months later some hotshot asks “wait, why are we doing this?” when launch is imminent. Like we all agreed this was worth doing all along, right up to this very moment, and now we’re not sure all of a sudden. All the approvals, all the documents written and decisions we went through were apparently not compelling to this person. We could have had this discussion and perhaps killed the idea in the crib, now we’re having this discussion about something we’re about to launch. In other words the processes are a fig leaf, which as you say is fine, but then it doesn’t even do the job of the leaf.