It just seems ridiculous on its face. If the "rules" are the literal word of God, then how can men change them? If they can change them to suit their own purposes, why should other men listen to them? How do the followers not care?
If you can just get together and decide "OK, now rule X has been changed to rule Y"; how is anyone supposed to take any of it seriously? It is literally made up as it suits them.
I prefer the first 3 x-es. I find most of the combat to be more tedious than fun, but I haven't played much new stuff since Civ VI came out, so I may be OOTL a bit.
Not true for "any for-profit business", but true for "any publicly-traded company".
Private corporations are beholden only to the laws of the land.