[civilized]

No one at my company would ever let IT take over their Excel/VBA processes.

The moment IT touches your stuff, your job transforms from solving problems to writing emails and having meetings.

Any change, no matter how trivial, takes dozens of emails, dozens of meetings, and half a year to orchestrate.

If IT wants to help solve more business problems, it needs to fundamentally change its self-concept and purpose away from "prevent hypothetical bad things from happening at all costs" and move it towards "solve more business problems".

[analog31]

This is vastly underestimated. The difference between coding and managing coding.

[civilized]

Working with IT isn't even managing coding. Management implies power to hold someone accountable, while working with IT an extended exercise in nagging and supplicating an organization which is completely unresponsive and unaccountable in its outcomes and methods.

You might as well become an immigration lawyer and spend all day begging the government to explain why your latest M-10582-9DJVA-V isn't being processed in the normal time frame, even though it was stamped in triplicate and sent by Certified Mail with a full-color copy of every identification document you own.

The best way to deal with IT is to avoid depending on it ever in the slightest way. If you give it an inch, it will take a mile.