Those busybodies are also there to keep rogue engineers from burning money on useless features (like AI chat bots) that only serve to bolster their promo packet...
As someone who has worked on an AI chat bot I can assure you it does not come from engineers.
It's coming from the CFO who is salivating at the thought of downsizing their customer support team.
I think the reality is no discipline, be it Engineering, Product or Finance, is immune to flights of fancy.
The dude nearly got fired, but your comment hit the spot. You made my night, thank you.
Sure, but that seems orthogonal to the pros and cons of having more layers of oversight (busybodies, to use your term) on infra spend. Badly run companies are badly run, and I don't think having the increased flexibility that comes from cloud providers changes that.