yeah working for government is strange. I'm in a position where the product owners don't want to make any enhancements/changes to a production system out of budget concerns. However, the actual invoice for my team's time is the same whether they make changes or not. They don't want to "spend the money on enhancements to a functioning system" but the invoice amount is the same every month regardless.

oh and in my experience, government fte's can screw up an infinite amount of times with no risk to their job.