A good response!

they are treated like enemies
And you "engage" your enemies in combat .................and your co-workers in your projects? (which are actually their projects?).

I was always taught to design systems to be as idiot proof as possible, because the further an error gets into a system the more difficult and costly it is to correct it.

As for being treated like children...............well there is the doctrine of "least empowerment". Anything you need to be able to do you will, most of that which you don't, you won't.