[numbsafari]

This is because businesses chronically underinvest in developer/engineering resources.

Developers tend to be viewed as something that is not "core" to the business, and generally only necessary on a project-by-project basis. So, projects are initiated, resource needs identified, and, since nobody wants to hire a bunch of full-time staff, most likely a consulting firm or off-the-shelf product is selected and configured.

The downside is now you have a thing that needs to be maintained, and probably it will be maintained by a limited pool of "in house experts", who are also responsible for just about everything else.

The net result is that you've got this centralized resource that is under provisioned and, well dear reader, what does your training as a systems engineer tells you will happen with a centralized resource that is under provisioned? Contention? Rising latencies and queue lengths? Disastrous to recover from failures?

You betcha.

[datavirtue]

You think they would be taken aback by the cost of a temp developer. In my case we easily charge the salary of two or three junior devs for one person and we are very sticky...not one contractor was out of work during the pandemic while those companies laid off FTE in significant numbers.