The British have a nice word: "jobsworth". No bureaucrat is going to say "yes" because the consequences of something going wrong costs them their job while the

The British have a nice word: "jobsworth". No bureaucrat is going to say "yes" because the consequences of something going wrong costs them their job while the benefits of things going right are zero. (For example, a DDoS. The number of times I have accidentally fired a DDoS at an API endpoint is non-trivial. Or it could get so popular that it's a DDoS. etc.)