Even though this might be best for the company and the product, does anyone else feel that big bureaucratic processes like this take away the joy and creativity of coding? I suppose it is because I'm more fond of coding as an art than as a science.
Totally. While it seems appropriate that a product like Dropbox would require some very careful risk management and quality control, this feels like a joyless environment, despite the occasional use of memes in quality control threads.