I usually side with the circumventers on this one. This misbehavior happens for a reason, which usually is that it's impossible or infeasible to do the work with "proper" systems. Excel sheets on pendrives is what you get when people can't exchange data using "correct" software, or when people need to continuously iterate on the shape of the data set, while getting the schema changed in the "correct" system would involve a ticket to IT and 2 months of waiting.
I think instead of paying people for doing a job and then doing everything possible to make that job difficult, companies should embrace that people will work around any deficiencies of top-down systems, whether software or procedural. But I guess this tug-of-war exists since the time of first corporations.