The other comments about blame outsourcing are absolutely on point, but another reason is that we've done a great job of breeding an engineering culture where anything beyond gluing some overpriced AWS services together is considered too complicated and an absolute no-no to do in-house and should instead be outsourced to "experts" like Okta who are supposedly gods and the only ones allowed to do the stuff.
Every time you suggest anything remotely complicated (that your average sysadmin could and did run a decade ago without making a fuss about it) such as running Keycloak or other $ON_PREM_SOFTWARE_PACKAGE is immediately met with lots of hostility. Of course the cloud companies and other SaaS vendors love this.
It's quite puzzling - one one hand it's encouraged to build overcomplicated FAANG-wannabe engineering playgrounds full of microservices, yet a fairly mundane task of "run this self-contained piece of open-source software, monitor logs and apply reasonable security principles" (that every company did till a decade ago) is now considered out of range of mere mortals.
Every time you suggest anything remotely complicated (that your average sysadmin could and did run a decade ago without making a fuss about it) such as running Keycloak or other $ON_PREM_SOFTWARE_PACKAGE is immediately met with lots of hostility. Of course the cloud companies and other SaaS vendors love this.
It's quite puzzling - one one hand it's encouraged to build overcomplicated FAANG-wannabe engineering playgrounds full of microservices, yet a fairly mundane task of "run this self-contained piece of open-source software, monitor logs and apply reasonable security principles" (that every company did till a decade ago) is now considered out of range of mere mortals.