The only way things can get better is by acknowledging that things aren't as good as they could be

It's not that you can't, just that you shouldn't unless you really, really think about what you're going to change and do your due diligence. Otherwise, whatever the system is doing and whoever depends on it could get screwed over when someone makes a fucky-wucky because they didn't do their homework.

In IT it makes sense, but for everything else it doesn't