I agree, that too much SOP's are a safety hazard.
Nowadays aircrafts are made to make life for pilots easier. Some expanded SOP's of a lot of companies are just doing the opposite. They are able to distract from the basic: FLY THE AIRCRAFT FIRST.
Now it's FOLLOW THE SOP FIRST. This leads to some big surprises during daily operation. Not any situation can be brought into a "SOP-regulation".
In a new situation this may force some pilots at first to look for the appropriate SOP instead of looking how to react and to act to bring the a/c back into the right way.
I have the impression that in some companies, the outgrowth of the SOP's have just the function to build a memorial for the appropriate responsible department and the members of this workgroup