This may be true, but when things break people will look for a scapegoat. So when things break, and you are mostly-responsible for initiating the failure, use collective language ("we" and not "I"), frame the failure as a systems failure when you are talking to management or the executives, look cool even if you are feeling stressed out. Manage the narrative! Sure, you flipped the switch or whatever, but try and survive the event. Just because you think its a system's failure doesn't mean other people share this belief, don't volunteer to be thrown off the bus.