>> Things are getting locked down so much, and so many special permissions are required that now people ask for permissions to systems or procedures preemptively.

Currently dealing with this at our current company. People were clamoring for access to various LLM's. They were slow to adopt and since we're a huge MS client, we were granted limited licenses for copilot. Then more people made waves about getting access and they slow walked a ton of licenses until a small portion finally had access.

Then came all the other non-MS apps that people wanted to plug copilot into (such as Figma) and that was another round of frustrations with users here as they locked stuff down, then slowly relented.

The company is still struggling with giving access to AI tools and LLM's since now the company is really lagging behind many other companies who are just running wide open with AI.

We're 100% dealing with what you're saying. EIS has been making people jump through so many hoops that every time they add an LLM, its completely locked down to just the enterprise network and people are getting really frustrated since so many of us are already well along using AI at home and elsewhere. Yet here our day-to-day stuff using AI is an act of congress to get access to the LLM and tools.