I'm with Jeff. Just because you have change control and auditing in place doesn't mean you can't do your job. In fact, you can do your job better under that environment, you just have to manage it a little more. It's a good thing.

The only issue I would take with this is, you should also have a documented emergency process. Then, the change control processes can, and will, be violated. So a good process takes this into account. You should have to alert certain people that X has occurred which requires you to make changes immediately to the server due to production outage. Then get the job done (recording everything you do in order to maintain the appropriate audit trail).

This is a good thing.