Quite. Having a process is not, and can never be, a problem. Having a bad process is a problem. If your process involves regular retrospectives, where everybody can contribute to making things better, then your process should tune itself over time. (Well, assuming you are empowered to change things for the better, that is.)

I wonder about this sort of thing too. Should we ever achieve post-scarcity (a la The Diamond Age), I think that the transformation of our urban landscapes would have as much to do with "we don't need all these roads and car parks and trucks everywhere" as it would with "we can have all the things we want". We devote an awful lot of time, space, and energy to just moving stuff around.