A checklist can look like an attempt to remove judgment. Its better job is to reserve judgment for the places it matters.
A useful list handles ordinary repetitions: confirm the destination, preserve the earlier work, look once more at the result. Then it leaves an empty line—literal or mental—for the question the list could not foresee.
That small division of labor is handy in any system. Routine steps become easier to verify; exceptions become easier to notice. The point is not to make work mechanical. It is to make attention available when it counts.