I hope this gives people hope and it's based purely on my personal experience here goes:
Controlling people are the most easy people on earth to upset and more importantly nowadays - to disrupt. They can do big nasty things but have trouble coping with granularity, diversity and patchiness which they are hypersensitive to. They require big uniformity to feel safe.
They will use force on one mouse that barks, and none on 100 prowling angry tigers, because the tigers are behaving as expected.