Well stated, hotnhigh!
"Inflexible work practices" and "legacy engineering procedures" are mainly brought about by whomever wrote the Qantas Engineering Procedures Manual.....
This manual is mainly an arse covering tome by management to try and prevent any liability on their behalf. If these procedures were followed to the letter, there wouldn't be too many aircraft actually flying...
Better not forget about OH+S requirements either, they legislated common sense out of the workplace. If the cheap Asian MRO's had to comply like we do, they would no longer be cheap!