Comment by godelski

  > but that's probably not a universal stance.

Sometimes you aren't really "the owner". For one example I was admining my group's server in grad school. I wanted to add quotas (we already had zfs) because people were abusing home directories but my advisor and a few members were very against it because I was "over complicating things". Their worry about me wasting time (20 minutes for all machines...) resulted in hours of yelling at people over the years. All because, surprise, a small number of people can't follow instructions and abuse systems, ruining it for everyone.

Another frequent problem we had was people using the systems while others were. They wouldn't check the machine's status. And of course you can guess that I wasn't allowed to add a scheduler.

A lot of groups do things in janky ways. Often not because they don't know any better but because leadership doesn't and is assertive