To me that sounds like the argument from a business department in an engineering org.
The solution is for your department to hire its own software developer(s).
I'd say the same thing for an organization that is heavily business-oriented and has an engineering department that gets kneecapped by the business-team-focused IT department that can't appropriately support the engineering department.
That’s so true. It’s not to build quickly, it’s to keep the agency within the non-engineering department.