Oh god don't remind me about Trace. I had to deal with the Controller side of that and it was a damn nightmare.
He basically dictated that you couldn't use any kind or repo+deployment pipeline except for what his team was building. Which wasn't actually functional for like 8 months. So we never even got a dev or staging tier to test against for months.
And then when I ended up with access to push things along, the actual apps for the trace system we're... not well implemented.
Ugh... I could bitch about this stuff for literal days but I gotta drop my kids off.