Comment by yamrzou
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21406452:
> One way to mitigate the "drift" is to have zero tolerance for deviation from procedure, but to also have a formal and rapid system for updating procedures, including explicitly temporary measures.
That really doesn’t answer the question. I’ve been in Told You So situations particularly last year where people wanted to take the safeties off. These were literally the same people who voted to put them on in the first place.
Kaboom.