Challenging areas are governed by strong opinions which tend towards over engineering and over planning/designing features, and this behaviour has being always encouraged by management.
In the culture management has encouraged, it is better to keep quiet, and is easy to become distrustful.
The current environment encourages work over life balance.
The current environment promotes micromanaging people.
The current environment promotes over controlling codebases (which it calls it ownership).
The current environment promotes loyalty and agreeable stances vs actual knowledge and experience.
The current environment encourages self-bias and discourages argumentative discussions to avoid confrontation by agreeing with a person and then ignoring it completely and doing otherwise.