“Whenever personal arms have fallen out of fashion, society has become something no sane person would consider worth defending. The same thing happens to individual: they start rotting too, becoming helpless, disdaining to lift a finger because it's 'beneath them'. They're no longer fit to live and are simply proving that they know it!” by L. Neil Smith
At work I frequently gripe about change control or change management, but stuff like this is exactly why those processes exist.
Not to mention that an engineer without something to bitch about is no engineer at all…