I could change a whole UI completely in 30 minutes to something fundamentally better but then 30 people would all wake up and be upset they weren't consulted and need training for it. That training and consultation will take hours and hours. And probably generate feedback - some of it correct, some of it misguided - that needs to be human negotiated, taking more hours. The effective maximum rate of change is limited so dramatically more by other factors than the technical implementation that we have to completely redesign process now to cater to those factors.
We are in a weird space now because most of the process is still built around a presumption that technical implementation is a lot of work. The main reason to be upset that you weren't consulted about a change is because there's a presumption that you will be stuck with it - ie: it's a lot of work to change it back. But it isn't a lot of work, it's effectively free. All this is just living in inertia right now.
A is what you're used to, B is what I recommend. If I can convince people to start using B instead, I can look at the metrics for A and conclude that it's effectively dead, and then I can remove it.
It's working out for me, but maybe not a fair comparison because I only have something like 15 users.