When "trying to do it right" means you have to go through layers and layers of bureaucracy and probably ruffle a few feathers in the process, over and over again, I can see how some people quick learn to "just do their job".

This is human behavior. We can talk as much as we want about what would be the ideal solution here, and how we would never do it, but problems like this don't happen in a vacuum and are rarely one person's fault. It's a whole system that leads to this.

But what I was trying to say was that by either refusing to do it outright, o doing it right (without “asking for permission”). That is - I’d rather be jailed or fired than doing this. And I hope that goes for most devs.