a lot of CIOs are very cheap and prefer to keep their IT teams "lean" (understaffed, underpaid, underskilled) as they see them as cost center, and rather hand o

a lot of CIOs are very cheap and prefer to keep their IT teams "lean" (understaffed, underpaid, underskilled) as they see them as cost center, and rather hand over couple mills to a vendor like SolarWinds to install their "automation/AI" pixie dust. So instead of investing into own employees who have the best interest of a company in mind (because you know job satisfaction and job security) -> they prefer investing into third party vendor whose interest is only to keep renewing multi-mill contract year after year while keep delivering barely above what's required to keep things afloat