Honestly, makes sense. This is how much of finance runs their models.
IRIG 106, Chapter 4 PCM telemetry covers what we were doing in this process, along with Chapter 9.
Sometimes it's just the path of least resistance to use what you already have.
I remember putting in a request to install Python. It took me 6 months to get a response of no. I had the opportunity to appeal with more information on the use case, but I just did it in VB for Excel at that point.
Granted, I've also seen a piece of software denied because it has USB in the name (even though it had nothing to do with USB), so YMMV.