Wonderful analogy. Unfortunately, too many, as shown here, are wed to failure. Since you’ve used a dog analogy, there’s another that comes to mind. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Then they are part of the problem, aren’t they?
If they want to continue to take the ship down, they are the enemy within and need to be thrown overboard. Some of the nastiness on this thread is pure sharkbait anyway.