Everyone wants to blame the bankers and the bean counters. As I get older I realize that businesses will happily forgo insane sums in the name of predictability and continuity and that it's the team leads and the middle managers who don't want the troubleshooting and the control panels because those would provide an quasi-audit log that would more readily quantify bad management. They see these systems as a threat, a way for information of what's really happening to leak around their control.

Of course not all team leads and middle managers are like this but too many of them are and the bad ones are a great fit for exploiting BigCo environments so BigCos act like a catch basin for them.