>DevOps won't want to support it? Burn down the company

Still true but you seem to blame the ops. I've been in a job where every dept was allowed free for all tech budgets. They would hire incompetent consultants to dump 3000hrs of work on devops then do it again next week and complain about how devops never gets anything done. Then 5 other departments would do the same thing.

You know how 99% of the work is in that last 5% of the project. Thats how all those consultants would leave everything.