How did your managers ever _ever_ sign off on something that cost an extra $0.5M? Either your pre profit or some other bogus entity, or your company streamline

How did your managers ever _ever_ sign off on something that cost an extra $0.5M? Either your pre profit or some other bogus entity, or your company streamlined moving to k8s and then further streamlined by cutting away things you don't need. I'm frankly just alarmed at the thought of wasting that much revenue, I could bring up a fleet of in house racks for that money!