I start with an old saying which I heard several times in the past: Nobody was fired for buying IBM solutions. It was generally the fraise for describing we are spending over the regular price, but at least we can expect it will work without issue. If we are sitting on the opposite side of the table as business leaders and somebody telling us we must spend the amount to ensure the IT operates without issues, what space do you have for decision-making? You bite into your tongue and accept the not-reasonable price.
This trend improved over the decades, with consulting companies always jumping out with some Gartner magic quadrant emphasizing that you must spend even more to keep your IT state of the art.
IT professionals accept the easy situation it might create some unpleasant moments while you describe why we must spend more than the previous year, but in the end, you will get what you want. A whole ecosystem lives from this ignorance behavior.
Then I always ask the question of how they serve the ownership mindset. Do they also spend without any effort at home just because everyone spends this way?
When you make personal spending, you try to serve your best interest. Even a house buy, a car purchase. You will never spend two times more just because everyone does this way!
That's more a mindset question of forgetting what to do at home at the workplace because that's the ignorance practice! Do they do it for personal favors or small gifts like "free" travel to a conference, or just because of ignorance?
While the average organization goes this way, there is a vast space for improvements for those who choose an alternative path!