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In my experience the "privacy and security" argument is a smokescreen.
The real reason is that it makes someone else responsible for zero-days occuring, for the security of the tool, and for fixing security problems in the tool's code. With open source tools the responsibility shifts to your cybersecurity team to at least audit the code.
I don't know about your workplace, but there's no one qualified for that at my workplace.
A good analogy: If you build your house yourself, you're responsible for it meeting local building codes. If you pay someone else to build it, you can still have the same problems, but it's the builder's responsibility.
Yeah it's all about outsourcing the risk to someone.