This is the overblown excuse people use to argue for their preferred changes, when really the environment or requirements usually don’t change, and when they really do then either it’s small and you should still stick to the plan or else it’s big and the need for change is so overwhelmingly self-evident that you don’t need things like Agile slogans to generate motivation or buy-in to change things.
Either way, harping on the idea of “but what if circumstances changed” is mostly just what corporate politicians do to subvert people demanding evidence for the requirement of changes.
Either way, harping on the idea of “but what if circumstances changed” is mostly just what corporate politicians do to subvert people demanding evidence for the requirement of changes.