Every control is a wager that the decision quality it adds beats the delay it imposes. The The Governance-to-Value Ratio ratio makes that wager legible per control: name the bad decision it prevents (the value) and price the flow cost it levies (the delay). Controls that add delay and prevent nothing are theatre and should go.
It distinguishes enabling governance from ceremony, and matters more under AI, where the reflex is a heavy review gate over abundant output. The framework is The Governance-to-Value Ratio; the operating mechanics are Architecture Governance Without Bureaucracy.