If you need some ammo, devex ('developer experience') is kind of a hot thing in the agile world right now. Martin Fowler has some good recent writings about how improvements to developer experience (of which technical docs are a huge part) vastly improve the efficiency and output of entire dev teams: https://martinfowler.com/articles/developer-effectiveness.ht...
Spotify apparently has invested a ton of money and resources internally into building a first-class devex platform for their teams: https://backstage.io/ Watch some recent talks about it from Spotify folks for great feedback on how it helped their teams. What they've built is exactly what you describe--self-service, low cognitive overhead to start using and sharing tools across the team.