If you think the effects of dissolving the team's mental model of the system

by removing humans (authors and reviewers) from the path to production, will show up soon enough to reverse course safely, I have news for you.

No amount of upfront experimentation can compensate for the inherent delays in complex systems. Effects take time to feed through. By the time they do, you might already be setting up an email account at your next gig, while your previous company will be living with the consequences.

Inherent delays, distant effects, non-linearity, path dependence and tipping points: that’s what you’re dealing with in socio-technical systems.