Not taking a stance is sort of weak. Most of the time bureaucracy exists to crush those who don't have the time and money to play by the rules; think of regulatory capture. Similarly in CS, you'll see a lot of companies with "standardized" overly complicated Java business code so they can hire fresh devs out of college and not actually have to invest a lot of money in hiring and retaining a development team. Something that could be written in 1k lines takes 400k and is actually very difficult to work on, but at least they don't pay any devs over $100,000, which is really what they're optimizing for.