Well... eventually the company learns the lesson the hard way, either because a site goes down or gets 0wned. Then everyone will cry about "how this could happen", and the ops people will tell you in response "we warned you that this would happen, here's the receipts, now GTFO".
At least would take it with a grain of salt when the DBA wants you to depend more on the DBA.
Same with devops tbh.
"Hey everyone, we need to chose the option that involves us the most and provides us the most job security"
Well... eventually the company learns the lesson the hard way, either because a site goes down or gets 0wned. Then everyone will cry about "how this could happen", and the ops people will tell you in response "we warned you that this would happen, here's the receipts, now GTFO".