"Organizations normalize risks that accumulate slowly.
Most disasters begin as a reasonable exception. In a rewrite proposal that assumes the ending is known, the system learns the exception faster than it learns the risk.
In a rewrite proposal that assumes the ending is known, the rational story will be that you were being pragmatic. The bill arrives later as fragility and rework, and the team learns that “temporary” means permanent. You see it in a shortcut that becomes the new operating mode. Write it down because otherwise two reasonable engineers will execute two different interpretations, and the system will call it “miscommunication.”
Barry Turner is a reminder to audit the argument, not the intention. Surface the assumption the plan depends on and name the first signal that would prove it wrong. Stop while it is still simple.