Because then the politicians wouldn't be able to over-pay their friends software development companies to reinvent the wheel, produce a broken product, then get

Because then the politicians wouldn't be able to over-pay their friends software development companies to reinvent the wheel, produce a broken product, then get paid an extreme amount of money to fix issues that should have never existed in the first place. Look at the crap show that was the development of Australia's COVIDSafe App. Huge bugs and security issues months after the release with no intention of fixing them.