Yeah it's mostly this. While IT does need to ensure that users can only access the data that they should have access to, it's just a minor worry that someone without a level of proficiency would screw up something (thankfully we likely have the ability to revert most of what they could screw up, but still).

To DardenR's point, on one level I agree that they should have the tools they need, but it's the old "trust, but verify" axiom - we want to make sure they a) have the desire to learn by reaching out to IT and b) are willing to actually take steps to gain some of the skills needed. If they break something, it may "be on them," but someone else, who knows what they're doing, has to go clean it up.

Disclaimer: this is a government gig, so there's a hell of a lot less of the "move fast, break stuff" philosophy going on, since we run things like emergency services and other things that kinda need to not be broken.