Blind obedience to checklists and SOPs without some degree of ability to question is the road to madness, at least in my view.
There is at least one helicopter where the start procedure called for the ECL for the first engine to be put to the 'FLIGHT' position immediately. The problem was the rationale for the procedure was based on an earlier version of the machine that was no longer valid. Could not get this changed by the manufacturer who refused to listen to the rationale.
Second example was wording in the FM about attitude to be used at the end of an autorotation - using this procedure would result in significant groundspeed on touchdown, when removing the wording and adapting a slightly different procedure would result in zero groundspeed. Again unable to convince the manufacturer to remove the wording.
What do you in these cases? Blind adherence to the procedures would (and did) result in less than desirable results.