It is a Chesterton's fence type argument. You need to understand the rules, before you know which ones you can break and when you should break them.

> Plus every developer believes they're a special and insightful little petal so all the caveats will get ignored.

I don't believe that is true. I think there is a vocal minority of developers that would apply to.

As Kosh said, once the avalanche has started, the pebbles don’t have a vote. Unless you are high up in the organization, you can’t change a dysfunctional organization.

It’s best to just leave.

Hell as the most recent CEOs of Intel have found, even if you are high up in the org, you often can’t change a dysfunctional organization.