In my experience leading engineering projects, I have encountered the same pattern repeatedly. We obsess over deployment speed. We measure success in commit velocity and uptime. But we rarely pause to ask the most uncomfortable question in the room: Who actually owns the identities we just spun up? This silence isn’t malicious; it’s structural. We have optimized our entire software delivery lifecycle for the creation of resources, but we have almost no muscle memory for their destruction. We celebrate the “Hello World” of a new service, but we have no ceremony for its decommissioning. For years, I watched this disconnect play out. I would sit in planning meetings where we architected systems...