I’m not being snarky, but have you ever worked for a company the size of, say, HP?

The tools are the tools. There’s nothing me or my boss or theirs can do about it.

They just don’t care. But I care, because if nothing else it’s my reputation.

(HP used purely for size comparison. I’ve never worked there.)

Hurts who? If you’ve worked around it then it doesn’t hurt you, at least not too badly. It still hurts the company as a whole. But is that your problem?

You might feel a sense of social obligation or solidarity with the company. I usually do. But if I was placed in a dehumanizing situation like that – forced to work inefficiently due to overly rigid policies that assume everyone’s needs are the same – well, whether I worked around it or not, my empathy for the company would be at a nadir whenever I thought about it.