You also make it sound like getting a JIT approved is getting keys to the kingdom. It's not -- every team has it's own JIT policies for their resources. Should there be far less manual touches? Ideally. But JIT is better than persistent access at least, and JIT policies should be scoped according to principle of least privilege. If that is not happening, it's a failure at the level of that specific org.
200 requests a day, lol
Policies vary. The node folks get access to the nodes and the fabric controller by necessity.
I guess we agree on the point where it should not be necessary, which echoes Cutler’s original intent of “no operational intervention.”
This is not an impossible task, after all it’s just user-mode code calling into platform APIs.