That's the problem with DevOps / CI/CD. The DBA team, and separation of duties / least privilege more generally, are seen as old-fashioned impediments to business velocity. The foundations of DevOps are supposed to be trust, tools, and testing, but in my experience once the dev team gets their hands on the tools, that's all she wrote.
To be fair, when you have a tech department of 6 people, who still have to respond to internal support tickets, manage the businesses intranet, and continue development of current projects, not to mention only 2 of those 6 have any clue how to setup/administrate a database... You can see the issue.
You can't just say "Hire more people" because the current setup is "working" and isn't considered critical to the rest of the business when it isn't tech related.
