I definitely agree with this. I think the easier and kinder thing to do is to just not reply to posts like that.

You’ve never worked for the federal government have you? They just don’t have the expertise to setup something like that, at least not at most agencies.

Change is hard, I get it, if this change is upsetting, I’d personally figure out the automation piece. it took me a bit but after getting it going it’s rock solid. If using Linux of some flavor, acme.sh works really well.