That's unfortunate, but how can you be sure this was his motivation or reasoning for adding an internal repo manager? I'm only asking because I learned the practice from an engineer / CTO whom I looked up to greatly early in my career, and if I were to go work somewhere and push leadership to implement Artifactory/Nexus/etc., I hope people wouldn't misunderstand my intentions. Anyone pushing for something like that is naturally likely to be the repo administrator in the beginning, and that may look like hogging permissions even if the developers intent is something entirely different? Catch my drift?