Checklists are great! Until TPTB decide everything should be a checklist, and then that everyone needs to be trained to the checklist and no more than that, and then start punishing any deviation from said checklists, and the all the newbies go 'why should I learn all this technical stuff, it's not needed for the checklist?'.
And then something changes and no one knows how to do anything but follow the checklist that doesn't work anymore....
And then something changes and no one knows how to do anything but follow the checklist that doesn't work anymore....