I think it's more important to note that it was possible to knock the
station out of position by pressing two buttons in the Soyuz at once. The
Russians clearly build a very different sort of junk.


Is this a question of pressing 2 buttons at any time, or pressing 2 buttons
once you have pressed another collection of buttons to arm that system ?

On Mir, "pressing those 2 buttons" allowed the Soyuz to re-orient the station
so that its solar panels could supply power to bring the station back to life
again (after Progress had collided and moved it out of attitude).

So, running thrusters while docked should still be possible (heck, shuttle
does it too to change station attitude and perform reboosts).

So perhaps the problems is just procedures for standard undockings. paperwork,
not engineering.