I'd love to hope the latter is true, but I do fear the former might be true, and here's why. I think that when we take outcomes that are sometimes less than desirable—when events occur that have made, for example, a purchasing process less than fair, or questionable in terms of ethics—we put new processes in place to correct those. Those have now mutated and culminated to sometimes make the process more important than the outcome.
On May 1st, 2020. See this statement in context.