> Instead, teach them to yearn for a system that's not total bullshit.
I worked for an organization full of such people. Intelligent, competent, and worked hard. And yet... the system, ehh...
(I've read the Citadelle on a long bus ride many years ago. It was exactly what I needed to read back then, I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for reminding me of it.)
With apologies to Antoine de St. Exupery; if you want to build a better system, don't drum up Jira tickets to gather user stories, make sprints and divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for a system that's not total bullshit.
Simply complaining is tiresome. Writing a well-reasoned internal blog post that explains the faults, gets traction for improving things, and gets people excited for your brave new world, even though it's not arrived yet; that blog post is what engineering leadership looks like.