It's never that explicit, it's more the things that nobody takes care of, because it's nobody's job. The bigger the company, the more jobs fall through the cracks, that should be taken care of, but lack an explicit role in the hierarchy.
There's usually a small handful of people that care more than they should, keeping the company afloat, but it's despite the company's policies, not because of them.
Imagine for a moment the there is no oversight. Every intern can ship prod code with their own homemade crypto.
How do you, in a retail business, agree to accept credentials that anyone can mint for free?
I mean obviously it happened. But… this doesn’t even seem like a compliance mistake. It’s a business-level mistake.