>Realistically, how often do you need to install brand-new non-standard software? If it is a regular occurrence then you need a process by which you can request it and the IT team can assess how they manage it.

Brew is a pretty regular part of my workflow, although that's more often restoring the environment after an IT-mandated OS upgrade than net-new software.

Also there's a couple of thousand third-party dependencies in the monorepo, seeing ~100 changes per month.

I'm grateful that engineering workflow is managed by engineering platform teams... corporate IT is a totally different beast, and it'd be pretty dysfunctional if they micromanaged this stuff..