Safety is a good thing, and it's hard to say that you can have too much safety...however.
Flying still needs a healthy dollop of common sense both from a flight and ground operational point of view.
In my opinion, there are those who seem to think that procedures can and should replace common sense.
Rather, procedures should re-inforce common sense, after all, that's where we hope the procedures came from in the first place.
Unfortunately, there are too many cases where the "safety culture" is so heavily overdone, that people start believing that they can do anything that is not expressly forbidden by the procedures.
This is based on the premise that "If it wasn't safe, they wouldn't let us do it"
At this point common sense devolves to procedure following and we are no longer pilots or whatever but procedure followers.
In turn, this spawns a bureaucracy that tries to implement a procedure for everything since it's obvious that common sense can't be trusted.
I believe that's where we are right now.