To some folks losing control of what they want to have omnipotent control over is unspeakably horrific, especially when they're brought up to believe that being given that form of control is their birthright.
Change is the nemesis, the feared antagonist that brings turmoil and usurpation that threatens the control freak with manifestations of doom and the inability to keep things exactly the way that gives them that life-sustaining control over others, but most importantly and yet unknowingly, over themselves.
To them, the inability to adapt and improvise is a strength and not the liability that it truly is.
To them, change can never be good unless it gives them even more control over the world around them. They want the rest of the world to revolve around them or, in their minds, they will eventually cease to exist from the scourge of anachronism.
edit - Worse still, are those that prey upon that weakness in others to enforce that same weakness of their own.