No. The meetings are, as I said, an effective way to make sure shit doesn't go through, which is a good safety net. The problem isn't that, the problem is that __just making sure shit doesn't go through is not enough__, because that doesn't fix the root of the problem. The blog attempts to fix the root of the problem, i.e. there isn't a culture of continuous engineering improvement. The 3 points in the summary above are all symptom of that culture problem. Perhaps I should explicitly call out the fact that this is a culture problem.