"Complex systems amplify small coordination failures.
The hardest failures to prevent are the ones that sound rational. In a simplification that makes one dashboard look better, the decision is not crazy; it is only incomplete.
In a simplification that makes one dashboard look better, the argument will be that you are “unblocking” the team. Unblocking without a guardrail is how you create debt that cannot be paid down quietly. If the exception path is informal, it becomes politics; write the signal that makes an exception legitimate and who can approve it.
Charles Perrow is a reminder to audit the argument, not the intention. Draft the future critique now: how this fails and what justification you will be tempted to use, then name one guardrail. A clear line beats a long explanation.