I can’t speak for MAS, but at the airline I work for (major in SE Asia), our tech log procedures are incredibly sloppy.
Our carrier has no defined handover from pilots to engineers and viceversa. I’ve seen pilot external walkarounds being performed in aircraft not released for flight, with engine cowlings open and two engineers inside the engine doing work. These are flawed procedures, not pilots normalising deviance.
When I worked in the US the procedures where very tight. If engineering was still working in a plane when you arrived at the plane, you made a 180 and waited in the terminal. We even had placards that rested on the throttle quad to warn pilots not to touch anything.
I wonder what MAS procedures are like.