My entire role at my current company could be better served by spending $60k on software licenses a year, but they choose to pay triple that for me to create a

My entire role at my current company could be better served by spending $60k on software licenses a year, but they choose to pay triple that for me to create a shittier version of it. I'm not complaining, really, because it's been an enormous amount of fun and I've been able to solve a ton of interesting problems, but from a business perspective it makes absolutely no sense.