Is graphical remote desktop really the primary systems administration tool in the windows server world?
Server 2003 doesn't support Powershell 4 or newer, nor .NET 4.5.1 or newer, and so IIS6 and other old Windows features have limited CLI interfaces.
Most Powershell cmdlets work on Server 2008/R2, but remote (WinRM) isn't enabled. There's a quick command to enable, but that's a security hole like leaving WMI open to the internet, and so is hard to push on secure environments.
RDP gives KVM, and that's been enough for decades.
I would phrase that more like: Most enterprises believe they have automated tools etc. Sure, the desktops are controlled centrally, but most corporations i have been working with in the last 15 years have had very limited tools to deploy servers.
Most of the time, i have seen these projects get implemented, but then die out when they start to consider all the old in-house apps. In the last one i was at, they implemented the tools, but ended up using it only for basic system setup and patching. Any application was installed by hand and managed by hand.