Also, it still counts as pushing straight to prod if your PR reviewer gives it a once-over and stamps it with “LGTM”

Look, just because PHP doesn’t have multiple inheritance doesn’t mean you can’t wildly overengineer everything.

The inflated sense of self is an important way to phrase it. I’ve known execs who weren’t excessively self-confident, but I’ve never met one who didn’t massively overestimate how fucked the company would be if they left.