My New Years resolution this year was to stop taking jobs at places where I spend so much of my time trying to wrangle my coworkers toward my model of what constitutes sane processes. Worked with a lot of people who think like OP and I am just done.

Also I think you’re being very generous with that 2:4 ratio. Malleability isn’t a multiplier, it’s an exponent. The number of interactions is factorial, and the overhead for managing all of that state is more complexity on top.