A good process can feel inconvenient before its protection becomes obvious.

Safeguards are annoying precisely because they cost you something now against a problem that has not happened yet. The checklist, the second signature, the backup nobody has needed all feel like friction until the day one of them catches something expensive. Their value shows up as absence, which is hard to notice and easy to argue away. So processes tend to get trimmed in calm weather and missed in storms.

When a step irritates you this week, ask what it was put there to prevent. If the answer is real, keep it and make it faster rather than dropping it.