I used to deal with a couple people who were against any automatic or free certs. It was part of their jobs to procure the annual certs, look them over, present them to the developers and maintain automatic checks to regularly inspect the certificates. This was partly how they justified their jobs, but they relished the ceremony and being able to tell developers what to do, even if only for a few minutes a year. They repeatedly blocked introduction of LetsEncrypt.

Just checked. They’re still using that manually installed cert!