We incorporated all the different ways they wanted as feature flagged options. Then it was very easy to remove them when they asked us to do that. I get where

We incorporated all the different ways they wanted as feature flagged options. Then it was very easy to remove them when they asked us to do that. I get where you come from though. What we tend to do is to stage/gate things so that different teams have different required fields. Sometimes the same team depending on the process. Sometimes all the fields are optional until the “status” of a project needs to go forward, so that they can create a project with very little info but can’t actually pass it on to the next team until they have the required data. Of course it’s not exactly a magical solution to angry managers and internal corporate politics but it helped us.