This goes on every day even in our field, from small things (like infra being blamed for everything at first so the application teams can go home) to the bigges

This goes on every day even in our field, from small things (like infra being blamed for everything at first so the application teams can go home) to the biggest involving criminal investigation: if you have nothing to lose from not doing it and everything to lose from doing it, why care? I am certain someone raised a hand at a certain point and was told to shut up and/or let go and/or his/her contract not renewed. The amount of not giving a fuck is staggering in this world (and IIRC a primary source of enshittification), particularly when a billion contractors are involved...