You can make the most dangerous credentials involve getting a keycard from a safe, and multi party sign off, not possible to deploy to more than X machines at a time with a sliding window of application, independent systems with proper redundant and failback design, canary analysis, etc etc etc.

I didn't even mean you can only make it difficult, I meant you can make it almost impossible to harm a real production environment in such a nuclear way without herculean effort and quite frankly likely collusion from multiple parties.

He said "difficult", not impossible.

Just don’t use the most dangerous credentials.

The most dangerous credentials are cosmic rays and we use the Earth’s atmosphere and ECC to fight that.