You talk as if developers don't ruthlessly prioritize and gatekeep too. Departments have to do this all the time because we have limited resources and shit need

You talk as if developers don't ruthlessly prioritize and gatekeep too. Departments have to do this all the time because we have limited resources and shit needs to get done. The real problem is that IT people (and that includes developers) have a nasty habit of looking down on anyone that isn't them and believing themselves superior in every way, so they're unwilling to empathize or reason with the people who's jobs their policies are interfering with.