My experience is that implicity is a huge problem as it's too often taken for granted and precisely not valued. Only when you stop doing people realize that since Jeff is on long leave server aren't updated and we've been hacked or that Lucy quited and everything seem to crawl to a halt because she implicitly was doing housekeeping on the database.
It might not have failed you yet but be sure the day it does there a good chance it will be spectacular.
The first sentence contradicts the other two and it contradicts the previous position where refactoring was done implicitly without anyone above in the org being aware of it.