That’s not a surprise, and maybe the issue at the core here is not really Docker. That’s all.
I've seen plenty of stuff in my career where I've gone on record to say "hey - we really shouldn't do this". Nothing got done about it. But hey, I did what I could.
Recently I learned about Rasmussen's dynamic safety model. I think this is a very handy mental model to have. It's the human factors that make what we do really hard. Often line level practitioners know better than they are allowed to do in practice and trying to fight organizational politics to Do The Right Thing can be an uphill battle.
Aside from anecdotes, there's little value in further discussion beyond the PSA that is the original post; save for prevention/recovery of such events.