But why are those teams incentivized to exist? For roads, brushes, wastewater, sewer, electricity - it's because these things are public utilities and ultimate

But why are those teams incentivized to exist? For roads, brushes, wastewater, sewer, electricity - it's because these things are public utilities and ultimately there is accountability - from local government at least - that some of these things need to happen, and money is set aside specifically for it. An engineer can inspect a bridge and find cracks. They can inspect a water pipe and find rust or leaks. It's much harder to see software showing lines of wear and tear, because most software problems are hard to observe and buried in the realities of Turing completeness making it hard to actually guarantee there aren't bugs; software is often easy to dismiss as good enough until it starts completely failing us. A bridge is done when all the parts are in place and connected together. Much software is never really done because - it's rare to pay until we have nothing more to refactor - the software can only be as done as the requirements are detailed; if new details come to light or worse, change entirely, the software that previously looked done may not be. That would be insane for a bridge or road.