That is because the budget for you or your team has a big fat $0 for tooling. It is a shameful and degrading state of affairs. Developer time is so expensive i

That is because the budget for you or your team has a big fat $0 for tooling. It is a shameful and degrading state of affairs. Developer time is so expensive it is insane to spend more than a few minutes thinking about a $100 purchase. Your team should have thousands of dollars of open budget per member per year for tooling or critical purchases. Obviously it needs to be rectified regularly to evaluate if the purchases are actually worthwhile, but needing complex process for trivial expenditures like $1,000 is insane. The funniest thing is that operations, cloud deployment, and data science teams do get serious tooling budget. Even though the fields are relatively adjacent and usually include some degree of software development, the fact that they are less capable of building their own tools means they get orders of magnitude more tooling spend. Everybody knows that developer time is too valuable to spend when we can just throw more machines and tools at the problem. But in actual software development, we just forget that and go right back to wasting valuable developer time by cheaping out on tools. It is amazing. It is about time we get some respect for our time and demand tooling budgets.