I love this and think about the same. Similarly, in a work setting, I used to decree that any subsequent decrees (eg: tooling, commit/lint rules, languages) mus

I love this and think about the same. Similarly, in a work setting, I used to decree that any subsequent decrees (eg: tooling, commit/lint rules, languages) must come with the intent, the desired results, and the expected costs. This made it much less political to suggest changes to our process while simultaneously eliminating some of the low effort "let's use <framework-of-the-week>" statements. I also want to believe it made it so ideas could come from anyone, not just people with titles or social capital, although I don't have any hard proof of that.