So I work in enterprise tech. consulting, my current project is with a large, global, chemicals company (it wouldn't be right to call out my client by name). This client is extremely competent from their multiple enterprise architects down to their analysts, they're a pleasure to work with. One of the business requirements could be met by a very simple in-house developed and hosted API, it's a perfect use case for GenAI assisted coding too. There's no magic, it's a problem solved over and over already. However, they don't want to touch inhouse dev with a 10 foot pole for the reasons we're both talking about. They don't want to support it, extend it, back it up, monitor it, and all the other things that have to happen after the code is done. They're perfectly happy to buy licenses from a saas so if anything goes wrong they can tell the CTO "it's not me, it's them". And when the CTO says "why doesn't it do this too!?!" they can say "i'll call our rep and ask".

saas value to an enterprise is more than just the functionality provided and I think that is lost on a lot of the heads down software devs here.