I think this is pretty misguided. If reliability is at all important, you need controls in place so that a single person making a single mistake won't cause an outage. Software engineers are human and humans make mistakes. That's just the reality. That isn't indicative of a lack of trust, but rather an acknowledgement of the constraints we are operating under.

Its possible that people subverting these processes are doing so because there are some actual flaws in the processes, but generally it is just as likely that they are being lazy or just don't think there is any way they would ever make a mistake. That isn't to say that it isn't worth evaluating the processes and the tradeoffs they impose, just that I think you are definitely throwing the baby out with the bathwater.